I would support that 100%. We should really have tied the last stimulus into vaccinations but the timing was off and the vaccine wasn’t readily available to everyone yet. Announce the stimulus and allow people to apply for the credit as soon as vaccinated. It can’t hurt the vaccine effort and we may end up with 1 last stimulus so why not?
Some I knew had the same mindset until their healthy no underlying conditions best friends got covid and were hospitalized for a week. The light bulb went on in their brains and then they got vaccinated.
It would certainly help finally raise the vaccination rate above 40% here in south cackalacky...
Improve the offer better than the Krispy Kreme free glazed donut everyday of 2021.
With the exception of the low percentage of people who can't be vaccinated, for anybody 12 and over, if they are not vaccinated it is by choice. If somebody makes that choice then whatever happens to them is their fault.
No. My method/philosophy was to educate the public about the risks and what could be done to minimize your risk and then allow people and businesses to make their own risk assessments. Since it was very clear from very early on who was the most vulnerable, I would have tailored government response to ensure that people 65+ and those younger with very high risk underlying conditions would be able to stay home and isolated.
The fact that they don't know anyone directly affected badly drives a lot of that.
Yes and no. I mean we are already paying tuition and living expenses for my college son. Already helped the older one through his college degree from Rutgers. My husband is in the military and I don't work so we are certainly not made of money! But I would be open to giving them some money perhaps but I don't think they would accept it from me. Though I am not thrilled with having to bribe them as their mother either. And god forbid one of them did have a reaction or side effect etc I don't think I could live with that! The choice is ultimately theirs. I can (and do) mention it when I speak to them. That's all I can do.
My husband would be verbally jabbing at them at every opportunity if they were our sons. (Jokingly, but with purpose.)
This isn’t actually true. There was a small study with around 600 people looking at mixing the 1st and 2nd shots.
www.nature.com
I believe the virus is a real thing too. I also believe in the vaccines. I don’t believe that government is the solution to the problem. History has shown repeatedly that government intervention has certainly not helped things. Corona Virus responses from Government sort of proved that. I’d rather not name examples, but I’m sure you could figure it out.
This isn’t actually true. There was a small study with around 600 people looking at mixing the 1st and 2nd shots.
Mix-and-match COVID vaccines trigger potent immune response
Preliminary results from a trial of more than 600 people are the first to show the benefits of combining different vaccines.
Exactly! And my son has been living in his college town (in NC) with roommates, many friends he has, a gf, and none of them have gotten sick from covid. The ones in his school who tested positive were just quarantined and that was it. It certainly would have been different if he saw his college friends severely ill. But they didn't, so he doesn't see covid as serious. Now my older son lives and works in NJ and even he doesn't know any contemporaries who got ill either. He has been working this whole time at Amazon in the corporate office. And since he did not get covid after all this time (a year and a half) NOW he should think it's serious? He just doesn't see it as a serious matter. Frustrating but hard to convince the young people who think they are invincible!
No I did not. I gave you a government website to verify what I said, then replied to you informing you that you were mistaken and urging you to read the link again. You then claimed to be talking about Canada and I apologised if that was the case as I have no knowledge about Canada.
We had discussions with both kids and the overwhelming response was that if there were side effects, we would rather live with those than lose one of us. That came from them.
We had lots of discussions starting last July when I was called to schedule. Oddly for us it wasn't about side effects for us, it was about protecting others. That's where I think we keep missing the mark. My kid opted out of the trial (with my agreement) due things like school schedules and worry about so many blood draws. That's where it was personal. However even declining to join, the comments were more along the lines of let's vaccinate so all can be protected and then selfishly we can go back to normal 100%
Thanks for your answer. I really hope you’re able to persuade them.
