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In reply to the discussion: My Experience in SW Missouri [View all]Warpy
(111,255 posts)and that is impractical. Oh, most believers are rational and reasonable people who have gotten the word on vaccines, I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the zealots.
Nothing will move them, they just get defensive and dig in and tell the rest of us we're going to hell for flouting god's will.
There is really nothing you can do with people like her except avoid the topic when you talk to them. Until and unless public health laws with real teeth in them are reinstituted, we're going to have people who are this way.
The disease as it is will kill only 5% of them and injure another 10-15%, not enough to convince them that maybe relying on medicine beats relying on Jebus. The danger is that it will mutate inside them into a much more dangerous form that vaccinated people will survive but the unvaccinated will not. This is a big "if" since so far, it has improved only its trasmission rate but not its virulence.
You're right in that you can't fix this. You can only go Emily Post on her and refuse to discuss politics or religion. Shouldn't be hard, she sucks at both.