Most of the older people I know have expressed suspicion over the shots to start, but then folded over like a wet napkin at the first sign of pressure to take them (often a requirement placed in front of them to see their grandchildren, which makes me ill to think about).
Now, many months in, despite some people they know having reacted badly to the shots, despite one of them having been sick for weeks after the shots, many of them don't see a problem with taking them, conceptually-speaking. Some have received a booster, some haven't -- I suspect they would fold to pressure if it were placed as a requirement to see grandchildren or travel or go to a restaurant as with the original doses.
The only one who has been willing to at least look at the other side of the argument over the shots, seems to have made up her mind not to get them. She has ultimately decided not to take them, even though her children have set them as a requirement to see their new baby. She has endured all of her various doctors pushing them on her, all kinds of descriptions of how much she would suffer if she did not receive the injections. To this point, she can look around and see that, while she has not been ill, many who have received them have been ill and have defined that illness as "COVID". This does reinforce her will to avoid the shots, but she is very much afraid of the implications for her family, friends and humanity in-general. She seems to feel pretty isolated -- she can see it, but nobody around her can -- and is bumping up against the too-common problem of trying to get the information to others and finding that they refuse to look at or (in some cases) talk about it.
Media that seems to have been convincing involves watching the "experts" -- the people we're all supposed to trust -- talk about the shots in a way that is antithetical to what we would commonly consider a vaccine to do or antithetical to the idea of "safe and effective". Being able to see the clinical trials ongoing, listening to the VRBPAC panel say that 'we just need to shoot them into kids arms to find out how safe they are', to see where the FDA had requested 75 YEARS to release Pfizer clinical trial data...all of this seems to have been quite an eye-opener regarding the status of our "experts". Additionally, she has noticed the extreme censorship surrounding contrary opinions and has, herself, been subject to a great deal of condescension for asking questions of her doctors.
Most of the younger people I know (millennial and younger) have been all-in on all of it. Talking about it with them gets an eyeroll -- total dismissal. I have no idea how to begin to reach them.
Most of the older people I know have expressed suspicion over the shots to start, but then folded over like a wet napkin at the first sign of pressure to take them (often a requirement placed in front of them to see their grandchildren, which makes me ill to think about).
Now, many months in, despite some people they know having reacted badly to the shots, despite one of them having been sick for weeks after the shots, many of them don't see a problem with taking them, conceptually-speaking. Some have received a booster, some haven't -- I suspect they would fold to pressure if it were placed as a requirement to see grandchildren or travel or go to a restaurant as with the original doses.
The only one who has been willing to at least look at the other side of the argument over the shots, seems to have made up her mind not to get them. She has ultimately decided not to take them, even though her children have set them as a requirement to see their new baby. She has endured all of her various doctors pushing them on her, all kinds of descriptions of how much she would suffer if she did not receive the injections. To this point, she can look around and see that, while she has not been ill, many who have received them have been ill and have defined that illness as "COVID". This does reinforce her will to avoid the shots, but she is very much afraid of the implications for her family, friends and humanity in-general. She seems to feel pretty isolated -- she can see it, but nobody around her can -- and is bumping up against the too-common problem of trying to get the information to others and finding that they refuse to look at or (in some cases) talk about it.
Media that seems to have been convincing involves watching the "experts" -- the people we're all supposed to trust -- talk about the shots in a way that is antithetical to what we would commonly consider a vaccine to do or antithetical to the idea of "safe and effective". Being able to see the clinical trials ongoing, listening to the VRBPAC panel say that 'we just need to shoot them into kids arms to find out how safe they are', to see where the FDA had requested 75 YEARS to release Pfizer clinical trial data...all of this seems to have been quite an eye-opener regarding the status of our "experts". Additionally, she has noticed the extreme censorship surrounding contrary opinions and has, herself, been subject to a great deal of condescension for asking questions of her doctors.
Most of the younger people I know (millennial and younger) have been all-in on all of it. Talking about it with them gets an eyeroll -- total dismissal. I have no idea how to begin to reach them.