This is what is frustrating to me. My mom has bought into the fear campaign. I don’t have a problem with that except she keeps pushing the vaccine on us. That I do have a problem with. She pushes it on my wife and my wife changes the subject. I recently had lunch with her and she brought it up with regards to my kids and said something like “well the schools may require it next year.” To which I replied that the schools can’t require a vaccine that is not FDA approved. She didn’t know that the scheduled conclusion of FDA trials is in 2023 also she says shit like, “you get polio vaccines and all the other vaccines.” But here is where she is wrong. I don’t get all other vaccines and neither do my kids. My kids have never gotten a flu shot and I have had maybe 4-5 flu shots. This argument that if you don’t get this vaccine means you are anti vax fucking pisses me off. 1) this virus has already been in my household. Therefore I and my family are NATURALLY IMMUNIZED. 2) my kids are; as far as I have seen from the data, at greater risk from this vaccine than from the virus since there have been ZERO deaths in my children’s age group in my state. There have been deaths in my children’s age group from the vaccine my state, including in my city of ~300k people, a young girl. 3) this notion that you should just take all vaccines also pisses me off. I recently read that there is an HIV vaccine in trials. Next time my mom brings this shit up I am going to ask her if she (a mid 70’s married woman) is getting the HIV vaccine and if she has gotten the HPV vaccine. She better say yes if she is going to be consistent with her arguments.