Are you feeling "vaccine hesitant"?

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[–]Retardation_station 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The wording of that always bugged me too.

"They're hesitant, but we'll get 'em. We'll berate them into compliance before the year is out."

I was hesitant the first time I went cliff diving. I'm throwing a hard fucking "No" at the vax.

The harder they push, the further the holdouts will dig in their heels.

[–]Jesus-Christ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

How many people do you know in your real life circle that are against the COVID vaccine? I only know one and they took it anyways out of pressure.

[–]Retardation_station 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My wife and I. My sister. Maybe a couple clients. That's honestly it. I mean, I don't go around asking, but it comes up.

My wife and sister could potentially be pressured into it, with the right "motivation" .

For me, they'd have to put a gun to my head, and even then it's a coin toss. I wasn't joking when I initially said this is my line in the fucking sand. Neither the government nor society gets to make medical decisions for me. Full stop.

[–]Jesus-Christ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're fortunate to at least have a few people, what the hell are we going to do when vaccine passes are introduced and we can't go to markets, bars, abroad, etc? Going off grid is not a realistic option for most people, preparing now is not enough. Trying to talk about this to others in my real life is to a point where I just want to give up, a friend of mine in response to an article I showed her called me, "one of those incels that gets pulled into all of those crazy conspiracy theories". I'm not even a fucking Incel. How is it a conspiracy when the state openly admits to taking your freedoms away for rejecting something that's supposed to be optional?

[–]Retardation_station 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've been wondering the same thing for months and I don't know what the end result is going to be, aside from violence.

I know for a fact that I'm going to enjoy the first set of legal challenges to any sort of vax passport.

Just a bit of personal history for context: I grew up basically as an "American gypsy" and generally understand what it is to be a second-class citizen. It's nothing new to me to be shunned by society because I've honestly never fit in because I've never actually belonged anywhere.

I have a few very close friends but I don't really rely on the general community, so I'll likely be fine without, but I might have to move again and that kinda sucks.