Column: What to do when your friends or family resist a COVID vaccine? Persist. Gently

Trib via Yahoo News ^ | April 5, 2021 | Mary Schmich

[MayflowerMadam]

“What to do when your friends or family resist a COVID vaccine?”

What about friends and family who push you to get a vaccine?
Get new friends.
Shrink your family circle.

I’m leaving a crafts group I’ve been in for over 10 years. They say they’re conservatives, and are in some ways, but lived as recluses until they could get one of the vaccines. For months. In Florida. In the winter. They didn’t even eat out once. Now with the magical vaccines they feel safe and secure.

I don’t say anything; I’m just leaving.

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I like Pastor Douglas Wilson’s recent response: “let me think about it.. NO!”

[DoodleBob]

And now from the other side. I know a small local band, all women, who are probably leftish in their leanings. Last summer when things were opening up they did a live stream gig - they were ELATED to be out with people, AND gigging. It was a closed-door event and MAYBE 1/3 of the crowd wore masks (and most of the mask-wearers were working for the venue - the owner told me the Board of Health could shut him down if HE wasn't masked. The patrons...well...that was ambiguous so he said, once, "wear masks people" and left it at that. I think he was simply happy to see people in his club again and be making money).

But they told me one of the band mates was so scared by the media etc that she would not rehearse even if everyone wore masks. So they got a replacement. They were so peeved at her - I mean, they understood, they got the fear - but they were like "enough already...time to live." They were more aware of what was happening to the populace than some "conservatives."

I believe there is a massive segment of the population, left and right, that is D-O-N-E with this hysteria. Sadly, there is a smaller but still meaningfully large segment that are actually HAPPY with this masked-up, no-contact, "germ-free" cloisterfest environment and do not WANT a return to normal. Finally, there is the 1/3 of the nation that will vaxx-up for a variety of reasons - and I'm not necessarily calling them out...everyone's situation is unique - who span the political spectrum. It is so weird.

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Isn’t prying into people private medical issues, you know, ILLEGAL?!

[RckyRaCoCo]

Edith: "Hey Archie, come with me to get the Covid vaccine."

Archie: "No, Eat-it..."

[Salamander]

Ever since the stolen election, what does “legal” have to do with anything?

Gah.

Hate Dems.

[Salamander]

Been fighting it from day one.

I laugh at the ambivalence of some stores.

Michaels, for instance, has one sign that says something like “We ask our customers to consider wearing masks” and the other “Customers must wear masks”.

I don’t because sign #1 asks and I answer no.

As a general rule, you have to have it up to get past the Door Stasi but then can run amok as you please, once past them.

Still, far too many are rebreathing their own bugs cheerfully.

Bottom line, if this IS a deadly, highly contagious VIRUS, as they seem determined to convince us, the only thing that will keep you “safe” is a sealed virologist suit.

Anything less is just something to soothe your fears, albeit uselessly.

[patriotspride]

We have been played.

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Bingo. Don’t know if it’s true . Allegedly Fauci and Gates were college roommates at Cornell. Fauci long history with Moderna , and Soros financially tied to moderna.

A Den of self interested thieves