Thanks for posting this. I always recommend people actually take the time to write a CUSTOMIZED letter to their Congressional representatives, rather than a boilerplate fill out your name and click to submit the form. That's just slacktivism. All the rep is going to do is see that same boilerplate response a hundred times and ignore it.
Visit
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials and find out how to directly call or write your local/city/county/state/federal officials and contact them directly telling them personally, even if it's a very short letter, is much more effective than this point and click email submissions. Check out
this letter I helped my friend in Texas right about them trying to ban Delta 8 and see how much more information it has and it doesn't have that boilerplate same ol' same ol' email campaign feeling to it.
And I apologize for your thread getting dereailed by anti-vaxxers below, but I'm going to have to derail it some more.
LOL, dude, here we go again with the COVID Anti-Vaxxers with their same arguments over and over that have no basis in reality.
FYI: I had to shorten all URLs in this post using v.gd so they would fit in the character limit. v.gd will show you the link before you go to it, but if you want to be doubly sure you can use
CheckShortURL
By not getting vaccinated, you not only risk your own life & health, but of everyone around you including your family, friends, kids, coworkers or anyone else you come in close contact but especially children who can't get the vaccine yet And people with immunocompromised immune systems that can't get vaccinated. You could have COVID and not even know it because you could be an asymptomatic carrier. According to the CDC, the commonality of being an asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic carrier of COVID that could be spread to other people concluded:
Source
You're putting a lot of people, yourself included at risk by not getting vaccinated. Just think of all the pain and suffering you ended up getting COVID and the medical bills (whether you have insurance or not). Think what it will do those people who love you who wish they could have done more to help you get vaccinated and the immense guilt they'll feel.
I've had the Medirna vaccine personally & everyone else I know has had it and we're all fine and I can attest I've had no adverse side effects and only a slight craving to eat brains.
I doubt you'll even bother reading any of that, but there they are in plain English. The science has been completely proven and is ironclad. You have nothing to be concerned about by getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
You've already been vaccinated your whole life. What's different this time?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When you were first born your parents had you immediately innoculated against these common diseases:
- Hepatitis B (2nd dose)
- Diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough (pertussis) (DTaP)
- Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
- Polio (IPV)
- Pneumococcal (PCV)
- Rotavirus (RV)
Then when you went to public school you were required to get vaccines for the following diseases:
- Diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis.
- Polio.
- Measles/mumps/rubella.
- Hepatitis A and B and.
Varicella.
- After a student turns 11, they are required to be vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis.
You have to get
vaccines when traveling overseas to some foreign countries.
More than likely these vaccines saved your life & you never even realized it. You were lucky not to live through the plague, the times of cholera where there were thousands of people lying dead in the streets & never have had dysentery, or the Spanish flu (which the COVID death rate has already surpassed) and especially polio and simply take it for granted you won't get these diseases when it reality it was government policies made before you were even born to keep you safe & alive so you can live your life in full and in safety from those common diseases. Currently, at the time of this writing there are 787,000 people who have died in the US. That's more deaths that the Spanish flu, the Vietnam War and even the
Civil War which saw 750,000 dead.
It's understandable to be concerned about the unknown. But this virus was extensively tested by the
FDA for over a year. You might argue it was rushed a little, but in a situation where there's a global pandemic, we needed this IMMEDIATELY. There will be further tests over the years, and I'm sure they will come back as having no long term side effects. Currently any and all adverse effects and side effects are being monitored by the
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which is overseen by the FDA, CDC, WHO & Dept. of Veterans Affairs. So far, they're only seeing they have come to discover side effects are quite rare, happening in less than 1 in 200,000 vaccinated individuals. And these are just allergic reactions, which can be easily treated.
It's okay to ask questions, but when you go around spreading unfounded conspiracy theories that were dreamed up as mis/disinformation, asking for COVID cards, or otherwise just being an anti-vax pest, I will have something to say about it.
'I don't have COVID': Doctor says some COVID patients deny virus, decry vaccines from their deathbed (USA Today)
More than 99% of recent COVID deaths in US involve unvaccinated people, a 'sad and tragic' situation
Covid Hospitalizations by Vaccine Status Bar Graph
How do dispute those statistics and still think it's a good idea not to get vaccinated?
oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net
