You're not taking the COVID vaccine because...
It's not FDA approved yet.The most informed sources say the Pfizer version will be approved before Labor Day. Call around - the Phizer jab is easy to find.
I could die from it.Over 500 individuals in the United States die each year after taking penicillin. It still saves thousands of lives. (Many reading this will remember TimesDaily editor Louis Eckl who died after taking penicillin following a dental appointment.)
Won't my arm turn red and swell?It's safe to assume those using this excuse never lived through a 6'2" health department nurse wearing size 17 bowling shoes come to your school each year to administer typhoid injections.
I've read entirely too many stories online about the dangers of this virus.Yes, and 99% of those stories originated in the Ukraine at the behest of the Russian government which wants as many Americans to die as possible.
The odds of surviving COVID are really good.Yes, and you have an 83% chance of surviving Russian Roulette. Wanna play this weekend?
All of us have to deal with the hand we've been dealt here. We might wish for more assurances, but nothing in life is a guaranteed slam dunk. If you pass up those two boats and a helicopter that God himself sent you, who are you to complain when the very old and the very young die...and a lot of people in between?
