David777
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There has always been a manipulative vocal minority on both sides of the issue that has used the pandemic for political reasons and their targets tend to be a general audience of those unable to understand the science or its interpretation on their own so look to their leaders to guide them. Note I've been a moderate for a long time disgusted with both political parties, prefer to avoid politics, have a science background able to read bio technical papers, and have received 3 Pfizer shots.
That noted, there are also significant numbers of those not wanting vaccinations that actually don't ever get any vaccinations because they are needle phobic. Many are not strongly so but rather have avoided ever getting flu shots much like many people avoid ever going to the dentist by simply immediately ignoring advice to do so, putting it out of their mind. Media has been generally afraid to bring up this subject because they do not want to publicly embarrass those that are and instead coerce them in other ways. Such people will use any other popular excuse they read about on the web to not be vaccinated instead of admitting the embarrassing truth. The more they are pressured by the rest of us, the more they become stubbornly hardened into their position, especially given the name calling and shaming so many tend to use.
That worked until as recent data has shown once vaccination became available earlier this year of 2021, a sharp difference arose between severe cases for those vaccinated versus those not, so they have tended to move away from older arguments like "its not yet proven..." towards arguments that forcing vaccinations is "un-American against their freedoms..." Of course the media political manipulators are the loudest in moving their followers that way. Another tactic is to encourage those unvaccinated who do come down with COVID-19 to make public claims they were vaccinated since that is the most damaging narrative to their cause and spouting so casually cannot be verified.
It is true that those vaccinated can indeed still catch the disease because many ordinary simple people don't understand one is still likely to become sick if they breathe in excessive amounts of the virus beyond what their improved immune systems can handle. Thus being vaccinated is not a ticket to engage in many pre-pandemic social behaviors. Close contact with a contagious person for hours in an enclosed environment is a recipe for getting sick just as such has been always been the case with airborne infectious diseases.
The majority of needle phobic are not seniors because we seniors were brought up during a Cold War and earlier era when all children received several vaccinations and no one protested but rather vaccines were proclaimed wonders of modern medicine. Instead most are from following generations with the recent decade's avoidance of measles vaccination where much of the current pandemic resistance started from especially with the advent of Internet social media that gave them power.
That noted, there are also significant numbers of those not wanting vaccinations that actually don't ever get any vaccinations because they are needle phobic. Many are not strongly so but rather have avoided ever getting flu shots much like many people avoid ever going to the dentist by simply immediately ignoring advice to do so, putting it out of their mind. Media has been generally afraid to bring up this subject because they do not want to publicly embarrass those that are and instead coerce them in other ways. Such people will use any other popular excuse they read about on the web to not be vaccinated instead of admitting the embarrassing truth. The more they are pressured by the rest of us, the more they become stubbornly hardened into their position, especially given the name calling and shaming so many tend to use.
That worked until as recent data has shown once vaccination became available earlier this year of 2021, a sharp difference arose between severe cases for those vaccinated versus those not, so they have tended to move away from older arguments like "its not yet proven..." towards arguments that forcing vaccinations is "un-American against their freedoms..." Of course the media political manipulators are the loudest in moving their followers that way. Another tactic is to encourage those unvaccinated who do come down with COVID-19 to make public claims they were vaccinated since that is the most damaging narrative to their cause and spouting so casually cannot be verified.
It is true that those vaccinated can indeed still catch the disease because many ordinary simple people don't understand one is still likely to become sick if they breathe in excessive amounts of the virus beyond what their improved immune systems can handle. Thus being vaccinated is not a ticket to engage in many pre-pandemic social behaviors. Close contact with a contagious person for hours in an enclosed environment is a recipe for getting sick just as such has been always been the case with airborne infectious diseases.
The majority of needle phobic are not seniors because we seniors were brought up during a Cold War and earlier era when all children received several vaccinations and no one protested but rather vaccines were proclaimed wonders of modern medicine. Instead most are from following generations with the recent decade's avoidance of measles vaccination where much of the current pandemic resistance started from especially with the advent of Internet social media that gave them power.
