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.
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LOLOL!
Helps that I’m stomping around wearing The Walking Dead t shirts.
My favorites are “We Are All Infected” and “We Are The Walking Dead”.
:D
{gasp!} It’s a breather!!
The first volunteers in Moderna’s Phase 1 trial received their first doses in the middle of March, 2020, over a year ago. Tens of thousands of others were vaccinated from then until delivery to the general population.
Pure evil.
I would fight to the death, because it’s likely to be same difference, anyway, to me.
Yep, that’s what we are dealing with. Dripping evil.
People! IT IS A COLD VIRUS. That is what "coronavirus" means. The powers that be and the media have ginned it up so much that it borders on the hysterical.
Sometimes, strike that, EVERYDAY I feel I am living in the Bizarro World.
I passed a mosque today after lunch and I saw a muslin man wearing a face mask.
Think about that one slowly.
Mary Smich is a liberal but a funny and not mean one....honestly
I’m familiar with her columns in Chicargo
But I got my shot so that those who are unnecessarily full of fear and loathing (and sadly, many of my friends are), they will not need to be full of fear and loathing of me.
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If your friends get the shot, why would it matter to them if you did or didn’t get the shot? They’re “safe”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJCNNwHUOE
Come with us Charlie to Candy Mountain
yup
the flawed assumption is that the “pusher” is always the holder of the right/correct view/position.
in the olden days we’d call these people “know it all busybodies”
I will not take that Trump vaccine that was developed at Warp Speed...
Drop it and mind your own $)&(“# business.
I can count my close friends on one hand, and if any of them tried this crap with me, they would be my ex-friends, and they know it. As far as my family goes, they’re all dead. I’m the last one left. My two sons even know enough not to broach the subject with me. And as much as I wouldn’t want my sons who are in their 50’s, to get the vaccine, I would never tell them not to. It’s their choice.
From your link.
“On a side note, the AstraZeneca vaccine was heavily financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”
Not an insignificant reason to avoid it. Anything the global elite, who are known population control advocates are for, I will oppose.
No one in my family is willing to be a lab rat
God help us.
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