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If the anti-vaccination movement is killing a lot of Republicans should we say anything?

Yes, we should. We (the vaccinated) are the good guys.
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Roadsterrider · 56-60, M
As a conservative and someone who has been vaccinated, most of my friends who are conservative have been vaccinated. It doesn't seem like republicans are avoiding getting vaccinated. The big push for vaccines came from Trump, if there is an argument for not taking a vaccine, it has come from democrats, even if you are vaccinated you still have to wear a mask for example. If the vaccine works, why do I still need a mask? My wife is a nurse, she didn't want to get vaccinated, her reason was that there were no long term studies to see the effects of the vaccine. No matter how safe the vaccine is in short term trials, there isn't any way to know if there will be an adverse side effect 10 years from now. She is one of the straight republican voters but her reason for not wanting the vaccine didn't have anything to do with politics, she has been a nurse for 30 years and has seen some of the bad reactions to vaccines. Everything that goes into a human body has the potential to do harm. Gardasil came out and was blessed by everyone as the best thing to happen in medicine and every young woman should have it to prevent HPV until the side effects started showing up. Some of the rhetoric against the covid vaccine was total BS and media hype. Seven women had blood clots after the J&J vaccine after 7 million doses had been administered. That was the only major reported side effect, 7 from 7 million is 0.000001%. One millionth of a percent, I got the J&J vaccine because of that record. And I talked my wife into getting it. The flu shot that gets pushed every fl season has a rate of 2 severe adverse reactions per million doses, so that would be twice as much as the J&J covid vaccine. It was media hype.