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Charlene's avatar

Appreciate your thoughts as always. What sincerely breaks my heart is the truth of this statement:

‘It’s something we’re not that great at in America. And it’s showed.’

I want to stop feeling a fire of anger in my gut for people who will not get vaccinated. Or wear a mask when needed. My children (twins) are nine years old. I know they are more likely to do ok if they get Covid-19. But Any risk is too much risk. The ‘my body my choice’ argument is a slap in the face and the most selfish statement I’ve heard in a long, long time. My family wears a mask for us, but also for you, so You won’t get sick. It would be nice if others would decide to care about someone else once in a while too. Part of me feels blessed to live here. Part of me feels ashamed at what we are becoming. I guess I should pray. This anger inside me is growing like a tumor. And I hate it.

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Assyrian Doge's avatar

I wasn't clear what you are saying about the "failure" of the vaccine to stop the spread. It seems to me to be a failure of 40% to get vaccinated. Are you saying that if we had gotten to 90% that it still would have failed to stop the spread and the mutations? Are you saying that the failure lies in the vaccine or in the population? I come from a small town in Oklahoma and I am old. None of my contemporaries (who are all vaccinated) has died of Covid (nor, to my knowledge) even gotten it, but several of their children (who are in their 40's and 50's) have died from it, unvaccinated.

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