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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: karen; marymurtaugh; maryschmich; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; vaccine
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To: Bob434
It flat out disgusts me.
41 posted on 04/15/2021 11:30:52 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: DoodleBob; USAF80; Allegra

42 posted on 04/15/2021 11:30:55 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can’t use legal options cause Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: GreyHoundSailor

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


43 posted on 04/15/2021 11:32:27 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

{gasp!} It’s a breather!!


44 posted on 04/15/2021 11:34:14 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: USAF80

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.


45 posted on 04/15/2021 11:36:29 PM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room.)
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To: Salamander

https://welovetrump.com/2021/04/15/operation-homebound-los-angeles-police-force-vaccine-on-homeless-mentally-disabled-without-their-consent/


46 posted on 04/15/2021 11:39:43 PM PDT by Maudeen (A question rarely asked these days, "If I died today, where will I spend eternity?")
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To: Maudeen

Pure evil.


47 posted on 04/15/2021 11:40:18 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Maudeen

I would fight to the death, because it’s likely to be same difference, anyway, to me.


48 posted on 04/15/2021 11:41:09 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Salamander

Yep, that’s what we are dealing with. Dripping evil.


49 posted on 04/15/2021 11:43:40 PM PDT by Maudeen (A question rarely asked these days, "If I died today, where will I spend eternity?")
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To: DoodleBob
People act as if getting the covid is tantamount to getting ebola.

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.

50 posted on 04/15/2021 11:48:10 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: DoodleBob

Mary Smich is a liberal but a funny and not mean one....honestly

I’m familiar with her columns in Chicargo


51 posted on 04/15/2021 11:48:17 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: jerod

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.

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


52 posted on 04/15/2021 11:48:33 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJCNNwHUOE
Come with us Charlie to Candy Mountain


53 posted on 04/15/2021 11:49:53 PM PDT by antceecee
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To: Trillian

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”


54 posted on 04/15/2021 11:55:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoodleBob

I will not take that Trump vaccine that was developed at Warp Speed...


55 posted on 04/16/2021 12:06:21 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: DoodleBob

Drop it and mind your own $)&(“# business.


56 posted on 04/16/2021 12:08:21 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: DoodleBob

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.


57 posted on 04/16/2021 12:09:11 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Maudeen

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.


58 posted on 04/16/2021 12:14:06 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: DoodleBob

No one in my family is willing to be a lab rat


59 posted on 04/16/2021 12:15:25 AM PDT by roving
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To: Maudeen

God help us.


60 posted on 04/16/2021 12:33:02 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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