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J Boss's avatar

I think it's easy to ignore until it's personal, like someone in their inner circle CLEARLY has a dangerous response. Until then, many people just think of it like a flu shot that let's them get cheap tickets to travel and party (bc no demand with all the fear).

Many are not willing to consider long term negative outcomes or principled lines in the stand. Most are followers, not leaders.

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Like the bad stuff could happen, but not to me. Like dying in an airliner crash.

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TAM's avatar

Except that dying in an airliner crash--at least in the US--is so extremely rare, it's simply not happening. You have a much greater chance of being hit by lightning.

As far as adverse effects from the vax goes, I remain somewhat on the fence. I think, like Covid itself, some of these stories may be possibly blown out of proportion. I don't know anyone who has been hospitalized or died from either but again that is only my small part of the world. Myself I remain unvaxxed mainly because I spent 37 years working in preclinical research and I'm not convinced they did all the safety testing that they should have.

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