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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: DoodleBob

Or just mind your own business.


81 posted on 04/16/2021 2:57:14 AM PDT by Durbin
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To: Salamander
You don’t do Seinfeld, but....
82 posted on 04/16/2021 3:08:13 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DoodleBob

Since we all have been through 3 quarters of the scamdemic without vaccine, the first order of business should have been get an antibody test, If you are positive you don’t need the vax.


83 posted on 04/16/2021 3:10:57 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: DoodleBob

“My body, my choice” would have been my response to this nanny-state busy body (who is probably all about “abortion rights.”)


84 posted on 04/16/2021 3:12:05 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: DoodleBob

Are we allowed to ask a female if shes had an abortion ???

If she says shes on her way to kill her baby may we now tell her not to ??? If she resists we can now persist, but gently that she let her baby live...

The answer to the question about the vax should be the same ...a horrified look and a mind your own business...thats personal...thats my private health care...

etc

If the person wants to just say No theres no need for an explanation ...Just No...


85 posted on 04/16/2021 3:22:39 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: jerod

That was the biggest load of nonsense I’ve read in a while.


86 posted on 04/16/2021 3:22:41 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Jeff Chandler

Before the mask mandates got going, and were just recommended early last year, I was in my local grocer and an older masked man near me muttered under his breath at me “you’re going to kill people.” I shrugged it off but later got really angry at his comment. What gall.


87 posted on 04/16/2021 3:23:33 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: TECTopcat

A good friend of mine who lives alone got his second shingles vaccine a few months ago. The day after the vaccine, he could bare stand up steadily and was just off. I took him to the emergency room thinking it was a mild stroke. The ER doctors couldn’t determine a cause so everyone concluded that the vaccine just overwhelmed his system for a day.

I told him the COVID vaccine would probably be worse and that he should think twice before getting it.


88 posted on 04/16/2021 3:28:03 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Salamander

Does the machete have a name?


89 posted on 04/16/2021 3:29:04 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DoodleBob

I do not trust any damned thing federal gub mint.


90 posted on 04/16/2021 3:29:36 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Molon Labe')
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To: Salamander

Im a Mom and a Nana and Ive never asked anyone...family or others....


91 posted on 04/16/2021 3:30:22 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I have several family members in the health care professions and they aren’t getting the vaccine. That says something more than this nagging Nellie knows.


92 posted on 04/16/2021 3:31:10 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

My standard boiler plate line to any store mask nazis: “Already had it. Can’t get it, can’t give it.”


93 posted on 04/16/2021 3:41:37 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: DoodleBob

If someone tries this with me ,I would be done with them. Till they die from the serum anyway.


94 posted on 04/16/2021 3:52:10 AM PDT by spincaster (hat )
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To: DoodleBob

Stop calling it a Vaccine!! It is an experimental drug ( serum) that has not been approved by the FDA. STOP IT!!
Every piece of propaganda i read has the word Vaccine in every paragraph about 3 to 4 times. IT IS A SERUM!!!!!


95 posted on 04/16/2021 3:55:54 AM PDT by spincaster (hat )
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To: All

They can go persistently , gently ‘pleasure themselves’ with a chainsaw.


96 posted on 04/16/2021 3:59:41 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: spincaster

Just bless their heart, gently.


97 posted on 04/16/2021 4:00:38 AM PDT by Theophilus (Dems fear fear. Christians fear God. )
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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”.

This is a logical, valid assumption in the U.S.

However, in socialist countries, healthcare is provided "free" to citizens by the state, at taxpayer's expense. The justification is that the unvaccinated will pose a severe cost burden on the public coffers in order to care for the sick. So, to keep health spending under control, everyone must be vaccinated.

Do you see how important it is for an open, free and competitive health care system? If it becomes a government service, they get to tell you what you can and can't do....from sugar-drinks, to motorcycle helmets, to bungee jumping.....all restricted as dangerous in the name of reducing govt-owned healthcare costs.

98 posted on 04/16/2021 4:04:57 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: DoodleBob

Why isn’t Mary Murtaugh pushing government to remove their illegal indemnification of the manufacturers of this experimental drug. You know, “for the children”.


99 posted on 04/16/2021 4:17:11 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: familyop

So where are those volunteers any why are they not telling the ones getting stabbed the dangers? Why the secrecy and deceit?


100 posted on 04/16/2021 4:22:09 AM PDT by USAF80
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