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Column: What to do when your friends or family resist a COVID vaccine? Persist. Gently
Trib via Yahoo News ^ | April 5, 2021 | Mary Schmich

Posted on 04/15/2021 10:30:38 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Mary Murtaugh is a recently retired nurse who says she has never been shy about promoting good health. She wasn’t shy the day she asked her favorite grocery store cashier if she’d been vaccinated.

The cashier was emphatic. No. And she wasn’t going to be. After listening to the cashier explain that she’d had a bad reaction to a flu shot, Murtaugh persisted.

“I told her that I would be worried if she contracted COVID,” Murtaugh says, and the clerk promised to think about it.

Promising to think about something is often no more than a polite deflection. But the cashier did think about it. She later reported she’d gotten two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and thanked Murtaugh for the “gentle push.”

“Sometimes,” Murtaugh says, “all you need to do is plant a seed.”

Planting seeds in people reluctant to get a vaccine can be like trying to garden in the Sahara. When I asked people on Facebook how they’ve handled vaccine resistance among their friends and family, they cataloged the pushback they’d received, a mishmash of fear and fantasy:

Needles hurt. COVID-19 is a Democratic hoax. The vaccines are a government conspiracy. They’re made of synthetic materials and we shouldn’t put synthetic materials into our bodies. The government is using vaccines to insert nanoprobes into our arms.

One woman lamented that an old high school friend wouldn’t get vaccinated because during a visit to the beauty salon she’d heard about a man in Poland who dropped dead upon receiving the shot.

It’s tempting to generalize about vaccine resisters, but they don’t all fall into neat categories. One conservative-voting man I know has gotten the vaccine, but his adult children refuse to.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: karen; marymurtaugh; maryschmich; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; vaccine
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To: ClarityGuy

The night this crap was first mentioned on FR, I watched The Stand and The Masque of The Red Death.

I *knew* it was going wind up as the WuFluCoup.

It was ALL about getting rid of Trump.


121 posted on 04/16/2021 5:11:48 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: bramps

I prefer to laugh manically and say “No Fing way, man!”

/we all have our styles


122 posted on 04/16/2021 5:13:14 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: DoodleBob

My body, my choice.


123 posted on 04/16/2021 5:16:38 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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To: DoodleBob

My body, my choice.


124 posted on 04/16/2021 5:23:24 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: DoodleBob

Nope. YOU LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE AND RESPECT THEIR RIGHT TO CHOOSE FOR THEMSELVES!


125 posted on 04/16/2021 5:28:22 AM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: DoodleBob

Hey. . .bring it mofo’s. . .and then deal with the avalanche of facts on the so-called “vaccine” you are gonna get from me. We’ll see who’s gonna be “thinking about” being a Guinea pig for an experimental gene therapy that has failed every test.


126 posted on 04/16/2021 5:49:35 AM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: DoodleBob

I highly recommend vaccination against Covid.

It does have to be up to you, since it is your body.


127 posted on 04/16/2021 5:53:42 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Salamander

If I ever use it, it’ll be with a big friendly smile on the back end. Sort of like how when, if someone flips you off in traffic for no good reason, and you wave like they’re a long-lost friend, it just sort of works.


128 posted on 04/16/2021 5:59:55 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Slyfox

I was watching reruns of the original law and order a few days ago...
They were talking about coronavirus...
this episode was from 1995...


129 posted on 04/16/2021 6:10:24 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: joe fonebone

Report: University of Cincinnati student’s death after J&J vaccine under investigation

https://www.fox19.com/2021/04/15/report-university-cincinnati-students-death-after-jj-vaccine-under-investigation/


130 posted on 04/16/2021 6:12:36 AM PDT by chuck allen
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To: FreedomPoster

I have done that myself and laughed at their befuddled reactions.

:D


131 posted on 04/16/2021 6:18:58 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Salamander
From the same Seinfeld :

“Heads-O”

”The De-noggin-ator”

132 posted on 04/16/2021 6:32:17 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Salamander

You probably also find boxes of ammo in your coat pocket instead of $5 bills, right?

😄


133 posted on 04/16/2021 6:35:37 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: alexander_busek

Yep!


134 posted on 04/16/2021 6:43:26 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: bramps
This says clearly that many of those who receive the shots -- you know ... to be "socially responsible" and because "we're all in this together" and other such mindless mantras -- say they are doing so to dispel fear in others. Therefore, they are admitting that although they question the effectiveness of these experimental "vaccines" to protect themselves, they assume the myriad risks of doing so not so much to address a medical concern but rather to address a psychological fear. Sounds to me to be much like masking: Although masking does little -- arguably absolutely nothing -- to stop transmission of a virus, it does serve a deep-seated psychological need to be "safe", failing to understand that wearing a garlic braid around the neck would be just as effective -- and just as foolish -- as wearing a mask, though much less dehumanizing.

Boy! The lies of the politicians and especially of the "medical experts" have really done a number on billions of people. A human tragedy of epic proportions, far outweighing the damage caused by the Chinese evil spirit, Covid.

135 posted on 04/16/2021 6:49:14 AM PDT by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: gundog
Does the machete have a name?

My machete has a first name
It’s S-L-I-C-E

My machete has a second name
It’s Y-O-U-U-P

You better get your “vax” today
‘Cuz if you don’t here’s what I’ll say...

...I cut you!

136 posted on 04/16/2021 6:54:49 AM PDT by rwfok (Nothing can stop what is coming. Nothing!)
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To: familyop
What’s wrong familyop? You seem scared. Are you having second thoughts about your vaccine? Buyers remorse causing Cogitations in your mind at night making you doubt? Like the possibility that the vaccine didn’t work and you will need a yearly booster? Or that vaccine escapes are now a real threat to you? Will you now need a chip implanted to detect your failing immunity? Are you no longer safe being near unvaccinated children that can now threaten your increasingly fragile immune system?

Don’t worry! As the minstrel Mick Jagger says, “You’ve got Bill Gates injected in your veins”. You are not simply a medical experiment, you are the future of socialized medicine! Ezekiel Emmanuel’s goal of “everyone dead by 75” will be realized in your generation and you are on the bleeding edge!
137 posted on 04/16/2021 7:05:24 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Oh, yeah. Maybe I need to run out to get some of Granny’s horse wormer as soon as possible! ;D


138 posted on 04/16/2021 7:22:39 AM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room.)
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To: Flick Lives

If your friends get the shot, why would it matter to them if you did or didn’t get the shot? They’re “safe”.

For some strange unexplained reason, that doesn’t seem to be part of the equation. or like me they hated math. severely limiting life’s choices.


139 posted on 04/16/2021 7:27:30 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: DoodleBob

NOT a single person donated any lost income to me when I got the Hong Kong Flu vaccination & spent 10 ++ days flat on my back.

That was the late 80’s and that ‘vaccine’ was developed over a longer period.

Not taking another vaccination —especially with all the news about severe reactions & deaths.


140 posted on 04/16/2021 7:50:54 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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