1. No. I purposely stay away from the news as much as realistically possible since part way through the Trump administration. Got tired of all the "orange man bad" shit, and I sure as hell don't care to listen to the current potato or any of his minions.[1] Instead you ran to the super trust worthy news and big pharma.
[2] Doctors give bad medical advice every single day. Case and point, your Dr. friend telling you to get the shot. [...] [3] people who had about a .001% chance of dying from COVID.
[4] "Lined up to take it" is strong and and exactly what everyone I work with did Gleefully, as I said. Some of them were even quite vocal squawking about how it was time to force it on people. even after getting it and getting COVID still. [...]
[5] For someone who didn't want back and forth you sure are posting a lot, almost like you are trying to shape the conversation.
[6] I having trouble following your logic. A couple posts back, you weren't sure if the vax was a failure, and weren't sure that it didn't save your life and your wife's, and wonder if it would have saved your kid, and it will haunt you forever not getting it for him..... but its a hard pass for you other kid.....
[7] Transmissible vaccine are not a notion. They are a reality. The only thing we don't know, is if the jab is one.
2. As I stated, I've known him for roughly half of my life - long enough to trust his opinion and thought processes. We will have to agree to disagree here.
3. As mentioned in a previous post, quoting statistics, as true as they may be, after the fact doesn't help much if a person happens to fall in the minority - especially so if the odds are heavily into the majority.
4. That is your experience, and I don't doubt it at all. But as I stated before, I'm not one of those people. It should have never been mandated anywhere.
5. I'm not shaping anything. My whole point from the get-go not all people who chose to get vaccinated are mindless sheep and in the same category as the squawkers and loonies who wanted to force it on everyone. That is all.
6. That post was rhetorical in nature to illustrate that the toothpaste is out of the tube at this point and we can't go back in time to do it over again to see if the results would be different. It may surprise you that both the same doc mentioned above and our pediatrician haven't/didn't recommend that either of our kids get it - friend said he wouldn't recommend it and for whatever it was worth he's not giving it to his kids either, and the pediatrician played the "as a doctor I'd be remiss if I didn't say it couldn't hurt, but I don't blame if you don't want to" card. In hindsight, it would've been likely pointless for our 1 kid to get it, given that she skated through it with no issues - but again, for our son, we can't answer the question whether it would've helped him or not. It may have, or given his reaction to the virus itself, the vaccine could've killed him outright. We won't ever know, and yes that does still keep us up at night.
7. ...ok? Guess we'll find out soon enough. Or maybe we won't?