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Why I Haven’t Gotten The Shot (Yet?)
Townhall.com ^ | May 6, 2021 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 05/06/2021 3:22:19 AM PDT by Kaslin

When it comes to technology, I’m an early adapter. I usually get the newest tech that interests me as soon as it is available, unless the upgrade is so minimal it’s not worth it. (I skipped the iPhone 11, for example, since the only upgrade was minimal and mostly to the camera). So I’m not afraid of new things or averse to change. But when it comes to putting something in my body, I have no desire to be Neil Armstrong on that. As far as the COVID 19 vaccines go, I’m willing to wait a while.

I should preface this by admitting that I don’t really miss socializing. My wife and I have two kids, ages 3 and 2, so it’s not like we were living the jet-set life anyway. Staying at home is my preferred mode. When I was single, I was out almost every night. But I’m not single, so having friends over is a much more appealing option, and we have exercised that option.

But it’s not just by lack of desire to hit the bars or the fear of some doorknob licking fetish returning that has me waiting to get the COVID 19 vaccine, it’s that it is so new.

Operation Warp Speed was a miracle, and one we desperately needed. It makes me proud to be an American that our country did it and it yielded multiple vaccines that work. And I have no doubt that they work. I just don’t know what else, if anything, they do.

Emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration is different from FDA approval. For the elderly, like my father (80), it makes perfect sense to get the shots. He has lung cancer (currently under control, thankfully) and got the shots. He had no adverse reactions and no hesitation about doing it. If my wife and I decide to have another kid, what would having an mRNA vaccine in our veins do to that baby? Nothing? Probably. But we don’t know yet.

What will having mRNA vaccines in us do to us in the future? We don’t know. They trigger our immune systems to be ready to destroy the coronavirus should it come in contact with it, which is great, but we don’t really know if that’s all it will do.

Personally, I think it will be fine. But I see no problem in waiting a while. It hasn’t even been a year since it’s been injected into human beings. I don’t think it’s crazy or paranoid to take a little while to see how that works out.

Again, I have faith in the science, I just have no sense of urgency to do it myself. I want more data.

The data we do have is promising, with the efficacy rate of the vaccine being even higher than originally thought. It truly is a miracle.

But I also see the data from infections themselves. The survival rate of COVID 19 is incredibly high for people under 75, and I am under 75.

It’s not like I’m willing to “take my chances” in some kind of reckless way, I wasn’t roaming the streets asking people to cough on me before the pandemic. But I am willing to take my chances with a virus with a 99+ percent survival rate for a while longer rather than take a vaccine based on new medical technology that hasn’t been tested for a year.

I’m not ungrateful, and I’m not anti-vaccine – I’ve been vaccinated for everything kids get vaccinated for, as have my children. I’m just not interested in being a guinea pig. I’ll wait. For how long, I don’t know. But I’ll know when that time comes.

As for my children, absolutely not. The government is expected to give emergency authorization for kids as young as 12 very soon. Without a preexisting condition, I think people would be crazy to allow it.

The Biden administration and Democrat governors across the country stupidly brought their “equity” racist garbage to vaccine distribution and set back what would have been the right thing to do – target the elderly. That would have been smart to do – protect the population most at risk – but nothing they do can be confused with the smart thing to do.

Now they want everyone to get it to reach something they mocked under the Trump administration: herd immunity. Well, herd immunity doesn’t require everyone. They can reach it without me. I’ll be along when I’m ready, not when Joe Biden and Anthony “I’ve been on every side of every issue” Fauci is ready for me. When will that be? We’ll see. My body, my choice.


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To: Kaslin

I won’t because the government is pushing us to get the shot really hard.


21 posted on 05/06/2021 5:04:19 AM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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To: Golden Eagle

There is a possibility these “vaccines” actually help the virus mutate into other variants. This is a theory posited by virologist Geert Vanden Bossche. So it may be that mass vaccination during a pandemic
is harmful.


22 posted on 05/06/2021 5:15:21 AM PDT by Crucial ( )
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To: Kaslin

Derek, son, nobody gives a damn about you and the shot


23 posted on 05/06/2021 5:16:23 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: unread

“vaccine coming out in the fall that’s made the traditional way”

I didn’t hear about that but then again I have very much tuned out of virus related matters. However, I am guessing this traditional vaccine will still be considered experimental for some time until the traditional process of gaining approval is completed.


24 posted on 05/06/2021 5:20:31 AM PDT by WinMod70
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To: Crucial

Thank you! I’ve heard of that exact study, and his creds are impeccable, even worked for the Gates foundation. If only more people were like us and actually did the research, rather than just trust the modern snake oil salesmen...


25 posted on 05/06/2021 5:24:34 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (I refuse to submit to their psychological warfare, much less their injections.)
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To: Kaslin

Shingles doesn’t care!


26 posted on 05/06/2021 5:25:07 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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Bookmark


27 posted on 05/06/2021 5:25:43 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: Dixie Yooper

When Honey Badger gets a shot, then I ...


28 posted on 05/06/2021 5:27:01 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: bert

‘Derek, son, nobody gives a damn about you and the shot.’

Really? Every day some friend, neighbor, coworker or cousin pressures me to get the shot. I tell them something like this that Derek said:

“Emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration is different from FDA approval...
...What will having mRNA vaccines in us do to us in the future? We don’t know.”

It summarizes it very nicely. They do not listen. It’s too late they’ve taken it.


29 posted on 05/06/2021 5:27:04 AM PDT by stanne
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To: All
I’m an early adapter.

Did he mean adopter?

30 posted on 05/06/2021 5:31:21 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Kaslin
"When it comes to technology, I’m an early adapter."

It's "adopter."

31 posted on 05/06/2021 5:45:51 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Kaslin

I am receiving my second Moderna next week. So far no issues.


32 posted on 05/06/2021 5:47:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Well stated.


33 posted on 05/06/2021 6:16:53 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Texas resident

Amen. I have the anti-bodies. Covid survivors are naturally more resistant to infection than those getting the vaccine.

WHY are they pushing these so hard? The government itself lists over 3000 reported deaths by vaccine in a 5 month period. Compare that to the 183 flu vaccine victims in the past year.


34 posted on 05/06/2021 6:25:00 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.)
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To: C210N

Who wrote that? Any idea?


35 posted on 05/06/2021 6:56:32 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Semper Vigilantis

My gut feeling tells me to run away from the vaccine.

Why are they pushing this so hard? The medical community pushes the flu shot every year, but not with the urgency they are putting on the covid shot.

my body, my choice.


36 posted on 05/06/2021 6:58:04 AM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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To: Jane Long

No, do not know.

It was circulated among some Telegram channels I follow and participate in. Similar to FR in nature, in outlook and in viewpoints.


37 posted on 05/06/2021 7:25:42 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: C210N

I tried signing up for Telegram....I never could get it to work. Could be operator error 🙃


38 posted on 05/06/2021 7:42:28 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Jane Long

I’ve heard of others having issues. mainly with doing the pin thing with a phone for verification.

telegram though has been the best thing for keeping tabs with news on the Great Awakening. Better by far over BitChute and clouthub.


39 posted on 05/06/2021 8:03:10 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: Golden Eagle

If you understand this bug, that makes sense.

Corona viruses are very hard to vaccinate against. Even worse than the flu.

Big question is if the vaccination will provide long term benefit (less severe outcomes) for the risks. IMO that is still an open question.


40 posted on 05/06/2021 8:09:55 AM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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