Originally Posted by
SouthernDukie
Another story: So at lunch the other day I spoke at length with the older woman whose adult daughter had gone into the hospital with COVID a few months back. She's still insistent that she will NOT get the vaccine. I asked her (this was on Sunday) if FDA approval would change her mind. She gave me the answer I knew she would. Nope.
So when I politely pressed her a bit more on her reasoning, these were the two basic reasons she gave:
1) It's still unproven that the vaccine won't have side effects that don't show up a year or more later. Of course this is an easy excuse to NEVER take it in her lifetime.
2) She thinks she's got a great immune system in her body because she didn't catch it when her daughter (they live together) had it. What's going on with this excuse, imho, is that she really doesn't think the virus can do much, if any, damage to her personally.
My guess is many of the non-vaxxed would offer one or both of these excuses. I'm sure there's also that segment that thinks the government is out to get them, or that the virus is is just another "cold", or that have just fallen into a political position on the issue (Dems=Vax, Reps=No Vax). But I bet the majority of the unvaccinated would boil their reasoning down to one of the two excuses this lady gave to me.
Yes, and my late Mother's excuse for not getting a colonoscopy years ago, despite several family cases of colon cancer, including two siblings, a nephew and a child, was, "Everyone who got colon cancer in the family had brown eyes and mine are blue." Now she did live to be 95 and kept her faculties until the end.
Sage Grouse
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