Mom of 8 nearly dies from COVID, regrets not getting vaccinated

[UpInArms]

LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (CNN) - A Florida mother is sharing her story about how she nearly died from COVID-19 and regrets not getting vaccinated.

“It was horrifying. I never in my life have felt like I was going to die until that day,” Ganeene Starling said.

Starling had chosen not to get the vaccine. Her husband and her children weren’t vaccinated either.

“Honestly, I think I listened. I think I let people influence me, like saying ‘Oh, you know, this is the government just trying to fill our bodies with stuff and they’re trying to push this shot on us,” Starling said.

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“I was one of those people that was like, ‘I can’t believe people are just going to inject their bodies with this medication. We don’t know enough about it.’ Now, I’m just like, it’s just a shot. Just get the stupid shot. That vaccine could have stopped all of this. Just one little shot,” Starling said.

https://www.kktv.com/2021/07/23/mom-8-nearly-dies-covid-regrets-not-getting-vaccinated/

[OnDoutside]

1. I hope she tells all her friends.

[Javaman]

2. Morons only learn when it happens to them

Aka the usual selfish repuke

Something is only a problem until it happens to them, everyone else is wrong and go fuck off

A fool and their health are soon parted

[Vinca]

3. I'd say better late than never, but she no doubt exposed other people and also

endangered healthcare workers. Maybe she can atone somewhat if she gets back on her conspiracy theory sites and tells her story.

[Grins]

4. "I think I let people influence me."

…and who might “those people” be, Ms Starling?

And what does that tell you?

[Arkansas Granny]

6. That sounds a lot like Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'I Was Allowed To Believe Things That Weren't True'

Personal responsibility = blame someone else.

[RainCaster]

5. Yet she will still watch Faux News and believe all their BS

What is wrong with these people?

[Silent3]

7. Except for possibly (and only possibly) a few people close to this woman...

...none of the other idiots like her will learn a damned thing from what she went through or her example of changing her mind.

These stories, unfortunately, will do little more than make people like us on DU feel smug about being smarter -- and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. We deserve to feel smugly smarter.

But the media the Trumpists and the anti-vaxxers listen to isn't going to report these stories. If these people somehow get wind of these stories anyway, they'll dismiss them as "fake news".

Nope. Most of this lot is incapable of learning from anything but direct personal consequences, and won't even necessarily learn from that either.

[BannonsLiver]

8. I'm glad she came around and will hopefully influence skeptical family and friends.

[joshcryer]

9. What scuffs me is all these anti-vaxers happily take the monoclonal antibodies...

...which are just as synthetic as the mRNA vaccines, only we have never tried those before either. This is a totally new field of treatment for a virus, it's all new territory, but we know it's safe because we have a decent idea how cellular interaction happens at that level.

The key is that Regeneron only reduces death by 20% while the vaccine reduces death by like 98-99% and hospitalization by like 95%. By the time you're getting the anti-bodies you are already very, very sick.

When Trump got COVID and got those experimental anti-bodies (we really haven't done that before, we've only recently gained the technology to make whole anti-bodies from scratch), I knew it would cure him, and it is maddening that these people can't trust in the medical science. I almost, almost, wish those anti-bodies came a month or three later in development than they did... but they've saved tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people (US government ordered over 1.5 million doses of it but it's unclear how much has been administered, it is certainly a very large number though, elderly people and at risk people get dosed regardless of their condition if they test positive for COVID).