I have a family member I love and trust ask me if I’ve had the vaccine yet; they are old, and have, thankfully with no immediate negative effects.
Told them I didn’t trust something that was rushed out so quickly and that didn’t function like a traditional vaccine.
Their response was they didn’t want me getting sick.
I’ll take my chances.
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Got another guy here at work who did take the vaccine; had to leave because he wasn’t feeling well after taking the second shot; pretty common response. Despite work policy being you don’t need a mask after your coof shots, still wears one.
Decent enough sort, but likes to appeal to authority a bit too much for my taste.
People will fight. but it’s guys like him that make me realize it’s always been a special few who make civilizations work.
Yeah, my father was pushing me to get the vaccine as well. I had to get genuinely mad at him before he backed off. (And I'm not getting it because I had the 'rona back in January. The vaccine, even if you assume it's perfectly fine, is useless to me.)
I have a family member I love and trust ask me if I’ve had the vaccine yet; they are old, and have, thankfully with no immediate negative effects.
Told them I didn’t trust something that was rushed out so quickly and that didn’t function like a traditional vaccine.
Their response was they didn’t want me getting sick.
I’ll take my chances.
I would argue older relatives would be better off with it because that's one less thing that would get them.
In fact it seems like the weirder side effects are happening to people who are younger. At least your relative didn't try to shame you for not getting it - sounds more like genuine concern than the harping and screeching of what a millennial would've said to you.
There is general concern, which I’m really grateful for.
We do have our spats on the vaccine, but that’s because I see it, at best, as a hastily-constructed and unnecessary ploy driven by greed, and at worst some kind of foul genetic experiment concocted by shadowy elements unleashed on an unsuspecting population.
And they see it simply as a vaccine, protection against a virulent and dangerous disease.
This individual also happens to be fairly centrist, if a bit right-leaning. Even their lifelong Democrat of a spouse doesn’t hound me about it, but for the latter I feel that they are simply party dedicated and don’t truly recognize how far gone the Dems have become in recent years.
Anyone in the modern progressive stack would probably identify both of them as biggoted nazis in some fashion.
Yeah, my grandparents and mom have been on my case about it. I just don't go into any long winded reasoning for not having it. I just say I'm thinking about it, because I am. And I know it's a brick wall conversation.
I have a family member I love and trust ask me if I’ve had the vaccine yet; they are old, and have, thankfully with no immediate negative effects.
Told them I didn’t trust something that was rushed out so quickly and that didn’t function like a traditional vaccine.
Their response was they didn’t want me getting sick.
I’ll take my chances.
—-
Got another guy here at work who did take the vaccine; had to leave because he wasn’t feeling well after taking the second shot; pretty common response. Despite work policy being you don’t need a mask after your coof shots, still wears one.
Decent enough sort, but likes to appeal to authority a bit too much for my taste.
People will fight. but it’s guys like him that make me realize it’s always been a special few who make civilizations work.
Yeah, my father was pushing me to get the vaccine as well. I had to get genuinely mad at him before he backed off. (And I'm not getting it because I had the 'rona back in January. The vaccine, even if you assume it's perfectly fine, is useless to me.)
I would argue older relatives would be better off with it because that's one less thing that would get them.
In fact it seems like the weirder side effects are happening to people who are younger. At least your relative didn't try to shame you for not getting it - sounds more like genuine concern than the harping and screeching of what a millennial would've said to you.
There is general concern, which I’m really grateful for.
We do have our spats on the vaccine, but that’s because I see it, at best, as a hastily-constructed and unnecessary ploy driven by greed, and at worst some kind of foul genetic experiment concocted by shadowy elements unleashed on an unsuspecting population.
And they see it simply as a vaccine, protection against a virulent and dangerous disease.
This individual also happens to be fairly centrist, if a bit right-leaning. Even their lifelong Democrat of a spouse doesn’t hound me about it, but for the latter I feel that they are simply party dedicated and don’t truly recognize how far gone the Dems have become in recent years.
Anyone in the modern progressive stack would probably identify both of them as biggoted nazis in some fashion.
Yeah, my grandparents and mom have been on my case about it. I just don't go into any long winded reasoning for not having it. I just say I'm thinking about it, because I am. And I know it's a brick wall conversation.