I have a MAGA business partner. Politics rarely comes up, thank heavens, but he said this via text over the weekend:
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[photo of very thin fifty-something guy in a hospital bed, sitting up and smiling]
This is picture of my friend [name] that saved moms life.
I known him 20 years.
He’s a doctor and didn’t believe the Covid has that bad and didn’t wear any masks and worked on his clients.
He’s adamant and starch Republican which am I.
Well… Jim dud get Covid and it nearly killed him. He was in the hospital for 2 months and lost 75 PDS.
If I didn’t have friends that I know that I trust that didn’t get this chit I probably wouldn’t care as much.
I gave another friend that lost his grandpa to it.
I used to believe it was all government control and all the conspiracy theories. But after I started to really dig into it and ask my friends that are in the field working on patients coming the Covid and variant I started to change my mind.
Like I said… it’s a personal choice. It’s just one I decided to make for me and my family. Plus we can travel outside of USA
Perhaps we should try a week of news stories all about how awesome it is to be vaccinated — people whose kids are all over 12 and all vaccinated are LIVING right now, man! Look how great! …and then, footnote, unvaccinated people are still dying of this now-preventable disease
I went back to Upstate NY for a wedding shower for one niece and a doctorate graduation party for another niece. I found out after the shower that the niece and a number of attendees are not vaccinated. I am all for letting people make their own choices but I would have worn a mask if I had known. A number of the attendees to the graduation party were not vaccinated and I stayed away from them. The rationale I heard: they don't trust the vaccine, don't want the side effects, etc. None had medical reasons for not getting vaccinated.
I am fully vaccinated and today, have a cough and a temperature of 100; my usual temp is around 96.5. Not sure what it is. I will give it a few days to see if it progresses and if so, contact my doctor. Go ahead and take chances with your own health but it is a different case when you put others at risk.
I have a MAGA business partner. Politics rarely comes up, thank heavens, but he said this via text over the weekend:
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[photo of very thin fifty-something guy in a hospital bed, sitting up and smiling]
This is picture of my friend [name] that saved moms life.
I known him 20 years.
He’s a doctor and didn’t believe the Covid has that bad and didn’t wear any masks and worked on his clients.
He’s adamant and starch Republican which am I.
Well… Jim dud get Covid and it nearly killed him. He was in the hospital for 2 months and lost 75 PDS.
If I didn’t have friends that I know that I trust that didn’t get this chit I probably wouldn’t care as much.
I gave another friend that lost his grandpa to it.
I used to believe it was all government control and all the conspiracy theories. But after I started to really dig into it and ask my friends that are in the field working on patients coming the Covid and variant I started to change my mind.
Like I said… it’s a personal choice. It’s just one I decided to make for me and my family. Plus we can travel outside of USA
Perhaps we should try a week of news stories all about how awesome it is to be vaccinated — people whose kids are all over 12 and all vaccinated are LIVING right now, man! Look how great! …and then, footnote, unvaccinated people are still dying of this now-preventable disease
I went back to Upstate NY for a wedding shower for one niece and a doctorate graduation party for another niece. I found out after the shower that the niece and a number of attendees are not vaccinated. I am all for letting people make their own choices but I would have worn a mask if I had known. A number of the attendees to the graduation party were not vaccinated and I stayed away from them. The rationale I heard: they don't trust the vaccine, don't want the side effects, etc. None had medical reasons for not getting vaccinated.
I am fully vaccinated and today, have a cough and a temperature of 100; my usual temp is around 96.5. Not sure what it is. I will give it a few days to see if it progresses and if so, contact my doctor. Go ahead and take chances with your own health but it is a different case when you put others at risk.