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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,921 posts)
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 11:52 AM Jul 2021

Some vaccine hesitant now express regret

PROVO, Utah — As Mindy Greene spent another day in the Covid intensive care unit, listening to the whirring machines that now breathed for her 42-year-old husband, Russ, she opened her phone and tapped out a message.

“We did not get the vaccine,” she wrote on Facebook. “I read all kinds of things about the vaccine and it scared me. So I made the decision and prayed about it and got the impression that we would be ok.”

They were not.

Her husband, the father to their four children, was now hovering between life and death, tentacles of tubes spilling from his body. The patient in the room next to her husband’s had died hours earlier. That day, July 13, Ms. Greene decided to add her voice to an unlikely group of people speaking out in the polarized national debate over vaccination: The remorseful.

“If I had the information I have today we would have gotten vaccinated,” Ms. Greene wrote. Come what may, she hit “send.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/some-vaccine-hesitant-now-express-regret/ar-AAMKq23

The information was there. You just chose to ignore it. Sad that reality has to slap some so hard in the head before they get the message.

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Some vaccine hesitant now express regret (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2021 OP
People like this should be last priority for ICUs. roamer65 Jul 2021 #1
I wouldn't call that vax hesitant. Vax Not Gonna Do It. leftstreet Jul 2021 #2
VX Obstinate marybourg Jul 2021 #3
lol leftstreet Jul 2021 #5
Sounds like God gave her that impression. -nt CrispyQ Jul 2021 #4
No they weren't. Just looking for a reason other than Dear Leader underpants Jul 2021 #6
Some folks are going to have to do something very hard to do, IMO. roamer65 Jul 2021 #7
Sometimes Covid fixes stupid. :( OhZone Jul 2021 #8
God to Mindy... orwell Jul 2021 #9

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
1. People like this should be last priority for ICUs.
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 11:54 AM
Jul 2021

Children below 12 first, 12-18 and breakthrough cases next, then these people last.

leftstreet

(36,106 posts)
2. I wouldn't call that vax hesitant. Vax Not Gonna Do It.
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 11:56 AM
Jul 2021

I was vax hesitant. Waited a bit to see if anyone reported growing a third eye or something. Then the J&J news about blood clots, spoiled deliveries, etc. But I got it all the same.

This lady with her "got the impression we would be ok" meant she wasn't going to do it at all

underpants

(182,769 posts)
6. No they weren't. Just looking for a reason other than Dear Leader
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:07 PM
Jul 2021

It’s like exit polls that register highly for people voting their ethics or morals - BS no one votes that way. They just want to make themselves feel like it want some petty nasty reason.

For white peoples the main reason is that getting vaccinated would mean HE was wrong and they were wrong to follow him.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
7. Some folks are going to have to do something very hard to do, IMO.
Fri Jul 30, 2021, 12:17 PM
Jul 2021

There are going to be a LOT of these examples over the coming months.

We cannot fix stupid...PERIOD. Some will get vaxxed, many will NOT.

The rest of us are simply going to have to block these specific adult antivaxxer cases out of our minds, ignore them.

It’s the only way to keep your sanity.

Save the grief for the children and the breakthroughs.

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