This man told me why he won't get vaccinated (yet)

[left-of-center2012]

He's a 25 year old guy who works in maintenance at my complex.

He said his aunt who lives in Mexico told him some woman told the aunt that some other woman told this person (who told the aunt)
that there 'may be' something in the vaccine which 'may' cause people to become paralyzed in five or ten years.

So the aunt told him to wait five or ten years and if people aren't dropping over paralyzed,
he could 'consider' getting vaccinated.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is just garbage! And he's an idiot for listening to it. n/t

[Blue Owl]

2. Nothing like sound medical advice

from a non-medical, third-hand source

[ProfessorGAC]

3. So, Who Has The Time Machine?

This is monumentally stupid.
How would anybody have information regarding 5-10 effects on something only being used a few months?
These folks must be way into Nostradamus.

[Peppertoo]

4. Does he know that people are having long term effects from the virus?

[niyad]

15. Welcome to our DU family.

[SheltieLover]

19. Welcome to DU!

[captain queeg]

5. OK. Makes perfect sense.

Right up there with Bill Gates and the “Reset”
Theory to destroy half the worlds population. Or something like that.

[Demovictory9]

6. ok

[Shermann]

7. I for one am skeptical of this claim

I don't trust unsubstantiated medical information I read on a forum.

I want to hear directly from the aunt who heard from some woman who heard from some other woman.

[magicarpet]

8. My lawnmower repairman did brain surgery on me last week,...

.... do you think I'll be okay ?

[niyad]

16. You will be fine. Your cognitive functions have clearly improved.

Did he ask you to make him a beneficiary of your estate yet?

[forgotmylogin]

9. I just got my first dose at a drive in event this evening.

The Natl. Guard directing traffic were joking with us in the post-wait line saying "Anyone have a tail yet? Some people say you'll either get faster cell data speeds or a tail, one of the two!"

[WhiteTara]

14. It's great for garage doors too.

I don't need the little gadget anymore!

[OhioChick]

10. He may be dead by then....

Many in their 20's and 30's are dying here now that have no pre-existing conditions.

[panader0]

11. Many years ago during an eclipse here in SE Az a Mexican co-worker

wore red cloth strips on his wrists for protection during the event.
He was frightened.

[gratuitous]

12. Well, as long as he has a good reason

I mean, if you can't trust your mom's sister's maybe-relative about two or three maybes, who can possibly blame the guy?

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

13. I have not worked ...

up to posting any OP about observations in my patch, so hopefully ok to just tag on here.

At a small homeless shelter in my town, while I was helping serve supper, I heard a guy say he wasn’t going to get the shot(s) because “I never get sick”. I’m having a hard time not being dogmatic about thinking getting vaccinated is the right thing to do, maybe unless someone has health issues that could disqualify the. I went to a place of disappointment that a guy in a shelter had not picked up the compassion lessons, that could lead him to get vaccinated for the “general good”.

[DenaliDemocrat]

17. I have good friends who have family

In remote parts of Mexico. This is just kind of how it is.

[roamer65]

18. Paralysis from SARS-CoV-2 is more likely.

The damn virus gets into the brain and causes problems months later. I fully expect infected people to have all sorts of mental and neurological problems in 10 or so years.

[Captain Zero]

20. During my hair cut a month ago the haircutter warned me about

a concern she had with the vaccine. That it would make our bodies grow new appendages or "other stuff".
I felt like telling her I still only had one dick, so not true.
But, I didn't. I let it go...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. Maintenance workers have generally been the most...

... racist and stubbornly ignorant among my coworkers over the years.

If they had a few months of training somewhere, they act like it's equivalent to a PhD.