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Well done!! You really captured the gist of each side. I can hear the voices of the pro-establishment people using the exact language you scripted :)

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It's now Sept 2022 & I come back to this post often to help navigate these difficult conversations with my vaccinated loved ones.

Do you have any advice for me?

I am being dis-invited from a family wedding because I am unvaccinated. The public health emergency is over, but people are still clinging to the idea of "mandates"-- which were never based in science-- and have had widespread negative effects on society as a whole.

Here's the kicker-- the bride & groom (my cousin, who I love dearly) are both grads of Ivy League Med Schools.

You'd think they would have realized by now that the vaccinated & unvaccinated can catch & spread COVID equally, so there is no justification to discriminate against the unvaccinated. Esp during omicron.

But the young couple are fresh out of residency & extremely busy. Between their new jobs & wedding planning, they likely haven't taken the time to look at the vaccine data themselves.

Their parents were doctors, but they seem a bit naive when it comes to the unholy alliance of BigPharma, BigGovt CDC/FDA Regulators, and Mainstream Media.

The bride & groom are adamant about requiring the vaccines "for the protection of all guests".

Practically everyone in my state has had COVID by now. I had it 2 months ago, July 2022, and recovered just fine. The wedding is in November 2022.

Again, they are dear to my heart... lovely, well-meaning people, much smarter than me, with impressive degrees... in the very early stages of their medical careers.

Are there any articles you recommend sending them? I don't want to bombard them with data, or upset them with the worrisome safety signals.. but at the same time, this is something forth fighting for. It's breaking my poor mother's heart seeing me get excluded by our extended family, for almost 3 years now.

Appreciate any insight you might have.

CDC's public health recommendations continue to tear families apart & are leaving people-- even smart physicians-- woefully misguided.

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Wow this is amazing! As a skeptic, I will use it as a bible of all the best arguments in one place.😀🙏

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Thank you for outlining all these different perspectives. 👍🏽💜

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