Boosters are a joke.......

[alientome]

Have a good friend who hasn't had a jab and neither has her mum (not judging,her choice etc)but every single day she's making digs at me.
I said I was tired last week she jumps in
"Probably off the jab"
I had my last vaccination in may!
A few of her statements
"Since my aunt had the jab she's been acting weird,all happy and thinks she's invincible "
"The jabs don't work,it's a test"
"See people dying who have had both jabs,pleased I never got it"

Now her latest is "hospitals are preparing to see who can handle the boosters and who can't"

Her ex's mum passed away from covid (she had COPD and heart problem and passed away from covid )
Her ex had it too
Both refused the vaccine

Her response ..."bit fishy them saying it was covid ,I don't buy it"

How would you approach this?
Would you try explaining stuff to her to try and help her understand?
Or just leave her to it and when she mentions it change the subject?

@alientome

Does anyone know the latest statistics regarding vaccinated /in vaccinated needing hospital admissions ? Purely as I'm being lazy and not sure where to look for info

Don't know about official stats but know a fair few people who work in intensive care and they say nearly all unvaccinated. It's getting wearing for them and I think their empathy is beginning to wane. I'm not surprised.

My cousin runs a covid ward in the north, all her patients bar 1 recently are antivaxxers/unvaxxed. She even recently had to nurse a distant family member who'd taken to trolling her with his antivax bollocks. So yes, she is totally burnt out by the AV bollocks

Two of my closest friends who have very strong moral compasses are weirdly anti vax. Both would do anything for anyone but they seem to be on a weird tanget with vaccinations. One friend convinced her 86 year old mother with COPD to sign a paper for her nursing home saying she doesn't want a vaccine - luckily her mum was asked verbally on vaccine day and did want it so she was double vaxed. My friend thinks her mum is not well and so won't last for much longer...so I have no idea her argument for a not wanting an unwell 86 year old with breathing difficulties to be vaccinated against covid! Its actually affected our friendship because I am wondering who is this person who I have been good friends with for 25 plus years.

I couldn't continue to be friends with someone who is that stupid and thoughtlessly trying to spread anti-vax nonsense.

You have my sympathy I live in quite a hippyish part of the country and its driving me fucking crazy. Unvaxxed hippy witch housemate has even moved on from lecturing me about vaccines and started on my antidepressants and birth control. The arrogance of these people is breathtaking.

@MrsSkylerWhite

Heard last night that in London, 90% unvaccinated (from Mayor’s office, I think).

There is an article this morning in the Guardian saying 90% of icu are unvaccinated and 10% are immunocompromised.

My DF (89, good general health) refuses all vaccines.
My DB (59, COPD) refuses all vaccines.
Me (64, a list of complaints as long as your arm including T2, obesity and asthma) I'm taking all the vaccines, all the help I can get. I'm not happy about vaccines, I'd rather be pure, but 'pure and dead' isn't as good as 'rickety but still going'. I've had meds against smallpox, polio etc as a child and I'm still here. It'll be fine. It will. Yes.

You say you respect other people's choices but this friend isn't respecting yours. I would distance and I wouldn't engage at all. She won't listen, we are in the trenches of this virus- most people have formed their opinion and won't change it. ESPECIALLY if they wont accept someone they know died of it.

This would do my head in. I had similar conversations with DPs mum as he lay in hospital with covid unvaccinated. I just say well ur entitled to ur opinion and i have my own lets just leave it at that, we arent going to agree so no point talking about it. Sadly there is no telling some people.