The choice many Americans are making to skip the COVID vaccine has come down to a profoundly important question: is vaccine freedom of choice more important than the risk of death?
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Although the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines each offer an efficacy rate of about 95% in preventing severe disease, it’s important to note that the numbers are not perfect. They were never meant to be perfect. So, it should be clear that getting the coronavirus vaccine was never meant to prevent anyone from getting COVID. It was meant to protect most of us from getting deathly ill or dying. That is the fact!
In the early days of the COVID crisis, people from across the globe were placed on ventilators and dying at an alarming rate. However, since the vaccines became widely available, deaths have tapered off and reduced COVID (in many cases) to the symptoms of a very bad cold. Even with breakthrough cases occurring among those who are fully vaccinated, they are now able to self-quarantine at home instead of being placed in a hospital-induced coma while on a ventilator.
Sadly, some Americans have misunderstood the importance and actual purpose of the vaccine and have erroneously assumed that the vaccine was created to prevent them from getting the coronavirus. NOT TRUE, nor was it ever true. So, some Americans have opted to skip the vaccine (and the upcoming booster shot) because they’ve discovered it’s not 100% foolproof in preventing them from getting the virus.
“Why get the vaccine if I can still get COVID?” the uninformed have pondered without considering the weight of their words.
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Other Americans are hanging their health on a political soapbox of freedom, declaring they have vaccine freedom of choice, they have rights, and nobody can tell them what to do. Regrettably, these are the Americans who are perpetuating the spread of the virus and preventing the rest of us from reaching herd immunity.
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“It’s hard to watch the pandemic drag on as Americans refuse the vaccine in the name of freedom.” – Alexander Stockton, film producer
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Here is the truth. The vaccine is doing what it was intended to do. It’s preventing us from becoming gravely ill like before and dying from the coronavirus in record numbers. However, some in the heartland of America are taking ignorance of the facts to their deathbeds and uttering with their last breath about vaccine freedom of choice and how the vaccines don’t work. Or, in other words, they’re taking the slogan “Give me liberty or give me death” far too literally.
Check out this heartwrenching video of how lack of knowledge is affecting a community in the Ozarks and spurring dozens of preventable COVID deaths.
THIS IS A MUST-SEE!
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So, it should be clear that getting the coronavirus vaccine was never meant to prevent anyone from getting COVID. It was meant to protect most of us from getting deathly ill or dying. That is the fact! […]- DJ
Unfortunately DJ, in America THAT message was NOT made clear from the jump.
And in a rush to convince as many Americans as possible to get the vaccine, THIS is exactly how the CDC and the Biden administration totally FAILED, in my opinion, to initially convey that clear message- they actually made things worse by initially suggesting that everyone who received the vaccine could now take OFF our mask and basically begin to go back to living life as usual. BIG mistake!
And people like BD and myself knew it. We never stopped wearing a mask.