I put off a necessary medical procedure until the "lull" between the initial vaccine push (carrot) and the "stick" (mandates; shunning) which came later in the fall of 2021. People were less anxious about COVID once they had their initial 2 shots, by early summer 2021. I had no way of knowing at the time, but I timed it perfectly becau…
I put off a necessary medical procedure until the "lull" between the initial vaccine push (carrot) and the "stick" (mandates; shunning) which came later in the fall of 2021. People were less anxious about COVID once they had their initial 2 shots, by early summer 2021. I had no way of knowing at the time, but I timed it perfectly because they had not yet mandated injections for patients undergoing procedures. I was actually taken aback by the nurse who was prepping me, asking conversationally if I had been vaccinated. I smiled and said, "not yet..." it was still OK to be "hesitant" at that time; that word hadn't yet been demonized. It was not yet "the pandemic of the unvaccinated."
I've done my best to avoid doctors ever since. I really don't want any pressure to take shots of any sort, and I wish I could feel confident that there are honest doctors out there who also held out, and who would support my philosophy of staying healthy (avoiding these injections, "first, do no harm," and take proven therapeutics if necessary).
I haven't been sick at all in years. But I no longer know how to state that to people, without being some kind of freak. Everyone I come into contact with has a litany of health complaints; I'm afraid I can't join in.
In the US as far as I know it is illegal to prevent a person from medical care based on vaccine status. I have rarely been asked, unless I visited an ER about this.
You could just say, I don't have it and am not going to take it and that's all I have to say about it.
I put off a necessary medical procedure until the "lull" between the initial vaccine push (carrot) and the "stick" (mandates; shunning) which came later in the fall of 2021. People were less anxious about COVID once they had their initial 2 shots, by early summer 2021. I had no way of knowing at the time, but I timed it perfectly because they had not yet mandated injections for patients undergoing procedures. I was actually taken aback by the nurse who was prepping me, asking conversationally if I had been vaccinated. I smiled and said, "not yet..." it was still OK to be "hesitant" at that time; that word hadn't yet been demonized. It was not yet "the pandemic of the unvaccinated."
I've done my best to avoid doctors ever since. I really don't want any pressure to take shots of any sort, and I wish I could feel confident that there are honest doctors out there who also held out, and who would support my philosophy of staying healthy (avoiding these injections, "first, do no harm," and take proven therapeutics if necessary).
I haven't been sick at all in years. But I no longer know how to state that to people, without being some kind of freak. Everyone I come into contact with has a litany of health complaints; I'm afraid I can't join in.
In the US as far as I know it is illegal to prevent a person from medical care based on vaccine status. I have rarely been asked, unless I visited an ER about this.
You could just say, I don't have it and am not going to take it and that's all I have to say about it.