These Anti-Vaxxers Are Desperate for COVID Shots

[Zorro]

Almost 500,000 deaths later, they see (at least some of) the light—and fear for their lives.

Caitlin Murphy, a 31-year old midwife’s assistant and pre-nursing student, once considered herself a hardcore anti-vaxxer. As a kid, she said, she had a rare, severe reaction to the pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccine. The vaccine that caused her reaction was later pulled from the shelves and replaced by the much safer DTaP vaccine, but the memory of the experience seared itself into Murphy’s brain, and she never got over her fear of inoculation.

When her children were born, she defied a firm consensus among scientists and public-health experts that side effects are vanishingly rare, and vowed not to vaccinate them.

“There were no ifs, ands, or buts about it. They wouldn’t be getting any vaccines whatsoever,” Murphy told The Daily Beast.

Murphy’s stance on vaccines was so firm at the time that after becoming pregnant, she said, she had her husband sign an informal agreement that he would never vaccinate their children without her consent.

Due to state vaccination requirements for children entering public school, Murphy, who lives near Albany, New York, did partially vaccinate her own kids, albeit on a delayed schedule. But she refused all vaccines for herself, and continued to refuse to get her kids vaccinated for the flu, chickenpox, and hepatitis B, among others. She still believes vaccine ingredients are inherently dangerous, and that they interfere with “natural” immunity, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines are safe.

The coronavirus pandemic has complicated her worldview, to say the least.

Murphy, who is immunocompromised, recently began to consider what it would mean for her family if she were to get sick with coronavirus and prove unable to fight it off. Now, she’s gearing herself up to do what would have seemed unthinkable even six months ago: getting the coronavirus vaccine.

“I just have to bite the bullet and do it,” she said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-anti-vaxxers-are-desperate-for-covid-19-shots

[dalton99a]

1. Finally they've figured out that a sore arm is temporary but death is permanent

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Exactly what the problem is.

So self absorbed with what they thought was the awful-est experience ever....they forgot about the reality of not getting a vaccination.

[catrose]

2. My child also reacted to DTP. Fortunately, the doctor caught it while it was still mild.

So my child thereafter DT vaccines. The first words out of my mouth were, "Pertussis is pretty bad too." And the doctor said, "Don't worry. Everybody else gets the DTP vaccine and so your child can rely on herd immunity for protection. Today, I don't think that's true. But they've improved the vaccine, fortunately for us.

[AZ8theist]

3. Fucking morons....

This is what happens when you get medical advice from a former Playboy bunny and a fraud "doctor" snake oil salesman ......

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-jenny-mccarthy-antivaxxer-public-menace-20150127-column.html

[colsohlibgal]

5. Will Never Understand Them

I took them all happily from my youth on. I am on for my first COVID shot next Thursday and can’t wait.....it’s a start in reclaiming my life as I knew it pre this Virus.

[NBachers]

6. I'm from the generation that didn't get polio because of the Salk vaccine, and I don't mind letting

people know about it. It puts me in a state of inflexibility before them, and pretty much ends the conversation.

[Skittles]

7. it's all about them

they had one reaction so no can do, forever............it's ridiculous..........now she thinks she is some kind of hero because she has decided to "bite the bullet"......here's a tip, lady: you're not a hero, you're just a fucking pain in the ass