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There's a significant amount of people who take the same approach to cancer as they do to diseases such as covid, such as:

* Pray

* Fast

* Take some essential oils / sugar pills

* Eat way too much vitamin C

* Protest against nearby 5G towers

* Take a lot of niacin and figure out what you did wrong in this or a past life while going on a former cruise ship that is filled with asbestos




Is that "significant amount of people" based on something or just your own prejudices?

Personally most people I know who don't want the covid vax reached that conclusion after weighing the risk/benefit.

I'm also from an area where "Pray" would be a significant part of their life, but has nothing to do with their decision.


>Personally most people I know who don't want the covid vax reached that conclusion after weighing the risk/benefit

This has to be a class/geographic thing because all but one of the 2 dozen or so people I have met that told me they didnt get the covid vax(rural area, southern state), said they did so for reasons that revolved loosely around " i dont want the demon-crat drug changing my DNA and causing a WHO mass population culling". You could definitely claim that only those types of people are the ones being vocal about it, but the actual demographic breakdown of opinion on the covid vaccine....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

only 40% of Republicans view the covid vaccine as safe, as of sept. 23. last month. they STILL dont think its safe. compared to 80% for democrats, a lot of that likely to due any loading of the word "safe".


My anecdotes of people's reasons disagree with yours so I don't think they are very useful.

A political breakdown doesn't give you the insight of those people's individual reasoning.



Pro-vaxxx team-sport zealots like this guy only inflame vaccine hesitancy in otherwise reasonable people.

Stop scaring people off with your othering, jerkface attitude.

History will be the judge as to whether you are right about a particular vaccine. They're not all the same in terms of efficacy nor safety, OBVIOUSLY.




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