Re: Thanks for passing on the story, but it is just an anecdote.

that 1st bullet in Nam hit the sand a few inches from my face as I lay on my stomach beside that mountain creek so close that it kicked sand in my eyes. At that moment, thinking I would surely die, my only thought was, "What will this do to my mother?" Nowadays, my big worry is how my death will affect my young grandkids because I know how such losses are so much worse at their ages. The thing I am afraid of is long- term hospitalization (because I also know how that is from almost a year in Walter Reed), and MOST IMPORTANTLY, I fear long term disability and rehab because I also know from experience how that is .I selfishly want to have health and independence for as long as possible.

The point here is( not to start another back and forth about control and political statements), to let folks who did not see the report on WYFF4 news last night with the woman from NC who talked about her brother who has been in the hospital for quite a while and is now in an induced coma and reportedly will have to have months of rehab just to learn to walk again if he does manage to recover. This was on TV because she wanted to get the message to others about the vaccine - she had strongly urged her brother to NOT to get it because he was so young and strong and that he did not need to worry about getting seriously ill. He was so strong that they put pictures of him in a football stadium opening his shirt in a Superman-like pose showing a T-shirt saying "STUD". (Vanity sometimes kills). The saddest part was that one picture showed his young kids. She blames herself.

Not trying to control anyone by telling them to go get vaccinated, it's a personal choice - not wanting another back-and-forth with all the name calling , we know where everyone stands on this but if you saw this report maybe one or two studs out there may choose a different path.

PLEASE NO RESPONSES OR ARGUMENTS. Just take a few moments to consider your present or perhaps future kids or grandkids.

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Re: I'm not afraid of dying... not since that

Aug 15, 2021, 11:42 AM

Good post Clover65, and the only thing I care to add is this, we all seen how covid affected the world, not just our country before the vaccine was ready. After the vaccine had been given to millions, covid deaths had significantly dropped around the world. But with any disease, they will continually change in a way that makes them stronger, and more deadly just as the covid virus has done with the variants of this same virus.

The vaccine doesn't stop us from contracting the covid 19 virus, but it has made it about 95% less likely to kill the ones that may have a weaker immune system, and it would have saved the lives of about 95% of those that have died from covid 19 before the vaccine had been developed, and given to those at a high risk of the virus becoming fatal for them. We hear those saying that they don't trust the vaccine, and there have been many of those at deaths door, and have died but, before they died, they confessed that they wish they would have taken the vaccine, and have ask their family members to take it bc they would have a better chance of surviving the results of covid unlike them that has died bc they refuse the vaccine.

What we do know about the covid vaccine, there isn't any proof that the vaccine has, or will kill anyone, but there is hundreds of thousands that it has been proven that covid was the main cause of their death. For me personally at a high risk of covid killing me, I've taken both of the vaccine shots, and as soon as the booster is ready, I'll be there waiting for the door to open to get the booster. And if it turns out that the vaccine will cause health problems down the road from now, at least I'll be alive for them to figure out how to fix it, I just know that for right now I'm alive and doing well without any fear of the covid virus killing me or my wife, and it's giving us a better chance of living longer, and we wouldn't have had that chance without the vaccine if we catch the covid 19 virus, or any of the variants that has come after the original covid 19 virus.

I'm done asking people to save themselves, it's their choice, and I hope they choose what's right for them, and the family and friends that love them, and the people that they love. And I hope their hard headed butts will survive this awful pandemic while playing Russian roulette with the percentages of life, and death of surviving without the vaccine for themselves, and their family!!!!

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I'm not afraid of dying... not since that

great post

I was back and forth on it, but I got it. My wife does

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Re: I was back and forth on it, but I got it. My wife does

Re: I was back and forth on it, but I got it. My wife does

No.***

^^^^^^^^^This guy^^^^^^^^

^^^^ Doesn’t believe in science^^^^***

Re: ^^^^ Doesn’t believe in science^^^^***

Relax, Row86 is just scared of needles

Re: I'm not afraid of dying... not since that

Re: I'm not afraid of dying... not since that

Thanks for passing on the story, but it is just an anecdote.

That’s what he said