Will you take the vaccine

will you take the vaccine

  • yes

    Votes: 91 37.0%
  • no

    Votes: 24 9.8%
  • maybe later

    Votes: 21 8.5%
  • heck no

    Votes: 30 12.2%
  • BTDT - Got the shot

    Votes: 80 32.5%

  • Total voters
    246
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RonH

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Looks like the vaccine is mandatory more or less, as the government is hard at work making sure anyone without proof of vaccine is basically outlawed to even go outside. What a fricked up system. I guess I wait in line for openings sometime in the next couple years to get crap I don't need or want. No one has or needs an immune system in this country at least, just run in and get shots.
 

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Looks like the vaccine is mandatory more or less, as the government is hard at work making sure anyone without proof of vaccine is basically outlawed to even go outside. What a fricked up system. I guess I wait in line for openings sometime in the next couple years to get crap I don't need or want. No one has or needs an immune system in this country at least, just run in and get shots.
Wow your state must really suck. Nothing even remotely like that anywhere I have personal experience, i.e. Texas, Arizona and California.
 

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Looks like the vaccine is mandatory more or less, as the government is hard at work making sure anyone without proof of vaccine is basically outlawed to even go outside. What a fricked up system. I guess I wait in line for openings sometime in the next couple years to get crap I don't need or want. No one has or needs an immune system in this country at least, just run in and get shots.
It's still your choice even if you don't see it that way.

I read earlier that nearly half of the upswing is in just 5 States - FL, MI, NJ, PA, & NY. Fauci was talking about how part of this nationwide is because there are still so many people who've not gotten the vaccine thinking they probably had COVID but never got tested to confirm. They now are getting one of the variants. Meanwhile the odds of getting a variant after vaccination is bigger than getting the original virus, but still less likely AND even if you do get sick, the odds of death or becoming a long termer are extremely low.

 
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I went to the bank today to deposit stimulous check #3 of who knows, and was stopped dead at the door. "We don't allow that type of mask". I don't want to wear any idiot mask that does zero, but my zero was not acceptable. Has to extend 1/4" to 1/2" above or below eyes, whatever. Can't wait for the day we all show valid ID's to enter showing vaccine has been done. 1yr down, 5399 to go is all even if everyone runs in today for the shot which probably does zero like the masks.
 

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99% of the world population hasn’t been tested. I know many. You are probably one of them. Man of steel spreader of rona. Wish Everybody was bulletproof like you. There wouldn’t be 100’s of k’s of good ppl dead or doomed to have serious pain and all kinds of health problems
 

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99% of the world population hasn’t been tested. I know many. You are probably one of them. Man of steel spreader of rona. Wish Everybody was bulletproof like you. There wouldn’t be 100’s of k’s of good ppl dead or doomed to have serious pain and all kinds of health problems
I'm obviously not bulletproof but tested negative, and as everybody i'm wearing a mask outside in public transport etc.
I'm just looking at the bright side, 99% of the population dont have it which is a good news.
 

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well if anyone thinks that they still have the same level of freedom one year later , they are confused at what freedom is .
my 85 year old mother lives her life and says " I'm not living my last days a prisoner in my own home " , "if it gets me it gets me " .
she quit smoking about 5 years ago (3 packs a day since as long as I remember ) she is quite independent and up till yesterday has been a foster parent (decided it was time to retire ) .
if you mask , or choose not to , it is your choice or should be . if you get vaccinated or not it is your choice . I don't worry about my neighbors choices I take care of my family . and that's my choice .
and since the c19 has cured most of the other things that used to get us , its a blessing . just have to worry about one thing and not the hundreds of other things that used to get you.
tying your shoes might kill you when your 85 .
at the hospital with my mother yesterday(vertigo it seems was her problem) , the car wreck they staff was talking about( it had just happened )
killed more people than c19 has in our county in the last month.
my mothers oldest brother passed away 3 months ago at 98 . I relayed the news to a cousin . her response was " what did he die of " he died of being 98......... a great friend of ours with health issues pretty much secluded herself the past year died of kidney failure a few days ago , it was not c19 related . how sad to be secluded from friends because of fear and what you feared was not the cause of your demise.
you can live or you can be afraid.
 
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ballisticexchris

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Well said Terry. For myself and loved ones we are minimizing the risks while still enjoying life as well as we can. If this means I don't go to a rally with a group of guys who brag on off roading their Super Tenere with street tires then so be it. I will instead be more than happy to drive up to the mountains and relax at the cabin with my wife.

This virus has changed almost everyones outlook on life and how we approach it. I have simply made adjustments and am 100% onboard to get the last vaccine dose so we can lighten up a little.
 

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For those getting the J&J shot, one thing that has not been well publicized is that it takes 4 weeks to reach full efficacy.

Despite the economic injury brought on by my industry being virtually wiped out, and on full shut down for over a year now, I was still pretty fortunate in that I didn't directly know anyone who passed from Covid. That changed a couple of weeks ago when a colleague of mine succumbed to the virus. So whether or not you choose to be vaccinated, your choice will still have an impact. Even though we cherish individual freedom here in the US, and have enshrined that concept in many of our laws and institutions, "no man is an island, entire unto himself". All life is risk, and given the totality of the pandemic, I see vaccination as a calculated risk worth taking to get back a more normal state of the world.
 

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my mothers oldest brother passed away 3 months ago at 98 . I relayed the news to a cousin . her response was " what did he die of " he died of being 98...
While I understand the point you're making I don't agree. A 98 year old doesn't only die due to old age. Some live with a decent quality of life well into their 100's. Or maybe he got hit by a car, fell down and cracked his skull, wrong meds from pharmacy and poisoned, etc. All of those could have happened to an 18 year old.

If his body and organs gave out due to age then hopefully he passed peacefully without suffering. But someone that didn't know that shouldn't assume it and therefore it's reasonable to expect them to ask about cause of death.
 

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Worldwide known cases 132 million with 2,870,000 dead.
More than that a third of even the mild cases have long term problems.

And here's a related thought:
All those long termers mean a long term increase to the medical system that WE ALL pay for, regardless of whether thru an employer, government, or out of pocket. Plan to live shorter and lose more of your income if you become one of them.
 
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