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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
But, the point IS all these UNvaccinated will NOT have mild symptoms. Some of them will be tortured by the disease in a hospital and then some of these will DIE. How can that be thought of as a good thing? They are our friends and neighbors. They have occupations and skills that benefit all of us. There are also moral issues in wanting herd immunity happening from suffering versus a vaccine. Sorry, I don't understand!
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Yes, sometimes people don't take the advice of their doctors and they die. It happens every day. COVID is no different. Also, you mentioned "friends and neighbors" being affected, but again, we don't have control over others' lives. You can only try and gently persuade them because anything more forceful doesn't work. People get angry as it is a personal decision.
Case in point, I have a close friend who's 80. She has a myriad of underlying conditions/health problems (double cancer survivor, half a lung, heart problems) and if she got COVID she'd be a goner. She stubbornly refuses to get the vaccine because not enough is known about it and she thinks there might be unforeseen side effects. I tried to explain that isn't a smart gamble to take at her age, and getting a vaccine is the prudent thing to do. Surprisingly, some of her friends in her age group don't want to get the vaccine either, and both her son and daughter (in their 50's) aren't vaccinated. It didn't help matters when she told her doctor she wanted to wait until more was known about the vaccines and he agreed with her (there's one of your unvaccinated doctors right there!).
Bottom line is, we got into a slight argument about it as I kept trying to convince her but in the end I had to stop or it might have ruined our friendship. You can't save people from themselves. You can try, but ultimately they are in control of their own destiny.