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Why are so many Americans hesitant in getting the Covid shot?

Posted - June 10, 2021
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  • 1952
    Vaccine hesitancy is nothing new. Vaccines have been met with suspicions and hostilities for as long as they have existed. The spread of myths and misunderstandings are part of the reasons. 
      June 10, 2021 7:06 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    Ignorance
      June 10, 2021 7:25 AM MDT
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  • 3024
    There has been so much in the media verifying how vicious, debilitating and deadly Covid can be.  
    To even consider not taking the vaccine is amazing to me. 
      June 10, 2021 10:03 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I agree.  I couldn't wait to get my shots.  Of course, if you think that Covid is just a conspiracy for the government to control the population, then you wouldn't want to get it. :)
      June 10, 2021 10:11 AM MDT
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  • 44649
    Because trump said the virus was fake.
      June 10, 2021 8:27 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    He should tell that to the 650,000+ people who died from it.
      June 10, 2021 9:39 AM MDT
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  • 10662
    to him that was faked as well.
      June 10, 2021 11:14 AM MDT
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  • 3024
    I find it interesting that covid replaced the flu. 
      June 10, 2021 1:23 PM MDT
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  • 10662
    So do I.  
      June 10, 2021 2:00 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    I'm sure he did think it was faked.  
      June 10, 2021 9:12 PM MDT
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  • 34436
    No he said the claim by the Dems that he was not responding to the virus was fake.  Even lefty SNOPES says he did not say that. 
      June 10, 2021 2:41 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    What is a SNOPES?
      June 10, 2021 6:29 PM MDT
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  • 17614
    A female snipe. 
      June 10, 2021 6:37 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    Pretty birds.

      June 10, 2021 6:38 PM MDT
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  • 34436
    It is a fact checking website. 
      June 11, 2021 6:02 AM MDT
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  • 7795
    The logic in it all is what they don't understand. In other words, some of these people are idiots.
      June 10, 2021 9:45 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I would bet there are a few more than "some."  :)
      June 10, 2021 10:11 AM MDT
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  • 10662
    Because instead of thinking for themselves, they allow others who have no brain to do it for them.
      June 10, 2021 11:15 AM MDT
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  • 34436
    Observed side effects up to and including death from a vaccine for a disease that 99+% of people under 70 survive. 

    Blood clots
    Stroke or other cardiac problems
    Bell’s palsy
    Infertility
    Death

      June 10, 2021 2:52 PM MDT
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  • 16829
    The number of people who suffer more than mild and extremely temporary side-effects is less than 0.01% - less than one one-hundredth the chance of dying from what is now a preventable disease. And almost all of those had underlying conditions which the vaccine merely augmented, rather than being the cause.
      June 10, 2021 3:12 PM MDT
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  • 34436
    And the number of people who die from SARS-2 who are under age 70 is under .05%....I am not getting it. I do not know anyone who plans to get it. Even the people I know who are over 70. 

    They have no way of knowing the long term effects. This post was edited by my2cents at June 12, 2021 4:52 AM MDT
      June 10, 2021 5:47 PM MDT
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  • 44649
    0.05% is 0.0005. 5 out of 10,000. I wonder who does these studies.
      June 10, 2021 6:32 PM MDT
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  • 34436
    CDC. 
      June 11, 2021 6:21 AM MDT
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  • 11089
    Selfishness. So many people suffering financial and health hardships and there are those who won't take a very small risk in order to end this pandemic. Ironically, many of them probably buy lottery tickets.
      June 10, 2021 5:13 PM MDT
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