I have all sorts of rational reasons for refusing the jab, from medical (not high risk, no long-term safety data, risk-benefit does not compute for me) to ethical (nobody should ever be forced to have a medical intervention against their will) to suspicion of power, money, and authority (nothing produced by those kinds kinds of corporations and pushed that hard by that many corrupt institutions and that many people with that much money and power can possibly be for my own good, it's obviously intended to line pockets and/or as a gateway to more digital control of the population).
But I also have a visceral, frankly irrational fear of it. Something is just....not right. I can't put my finger on it. Someone or something somewhere seems to have whispered to me "beware", and I listened. I feel like the above arguments came second, after the visceral recoil.
I don't get flu shots, either, but I don't have the same visceral recoil around them. With the flu shot, it really is more just "eh, there's always a cost-benefit analysis with everything, I suppose flu shots may make sense for some people but not for me at this time given my low risk and their relatively low efficacy."
But the cootie jabs make me shudder for less logical reasons I can't quite explain.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2022-11-13 05:47 pm (UTC)I have all sorts of rational reasons for refusing the jab, from medical (not high risk, no long-term safety data, risk-benefit does not compute for me) to ethical (nobody should ever be forced to have a medical intervention against their will) to suspicion of power, money, and authority (nothing produced by those kinds kinds of corporations and pushed that hard by that many corrupt institutions and that many people with that much money and power can possibly be for my own good, it's obviously intended to line pockets and/or as a gateway to more digital control of the population).
But I also have a visceral, frankly irrational fear of it. Something is just....not right. I can't put my finger on it. Someone or something somewhere seems to have whispered to me "beware", and I listened. I feel like the above arguments came second, after the visceral recoil.
I don't get flu shots, either, but I don't have the same visceral recoil around them. With the flu shot, it really is more just "eh, there's always a cost-benefit analysis with everything, I suppose flu shots may make sense for some people but not for me at this time given my low risk and their relatively low efficacy."
But the cootie jabs make me shudder for less logical reasons I can't quite explain.