{"id":13875,"date":"2021-06-17T16:09:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T23:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennifermargulis.net\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2021-06-17T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T23:09:16","slug":"covid-vaccine-peer-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennifermargulis.net\/covid-vaccine-peer-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Vaccine Peer Pressure: A Daughter Feels Pressured, A Mother Laments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COVIDA Daughter Feels COVID Vaccine Peer Pressure, A Mother Laments<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Many young people report feeling extreme peer pressure around the COVID vaccine. The COVID vaccine peer pressure comes from their friends, their teachers, their employers, and the media. The campaign to get everyone over the age of 12 vaccinated is relentless.<\/p>\n

Middle and high schools have set up vaccination clinics. Employers<\/a> tell employees they must be vaccinated in order to keep their jobs. And some parents, also, use the COVID vaccine peer pressure to talk their young adult children into getting the shots.<\/p>\n

Peer pressure affects adults as well<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This COVID vaccine peer pressure affects adults as well. I have two friends who both did not want to get the vaccine. They are both healthy. Neither is at risk for a severe COVID infection. One chose not to vaccinate her children. But both succumbed to the COVID vaccine peer pressure from their friends and other family members. Both are sorry. My one friend swears she won’t get the booster coming in September and also will not get the vaccine annually, even if the CDC recommends it.<\/p>\n

The amount of advertising, incentivizing, and peer pressure is unprecedented. At the same time, scientists<\/a>, researchers<\/a>, and medical doctors<\/a> have deep concerns about the safety, efficacy, and necessity<\/a> of the COVID-19 vaccines. Especially for children and teens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One mom reached out to me distraught. Her daughter is feeling so much COVID vaccine peer pressure that she wants to get the shot. This mom is in absolute agony. “You raise a beautiful child all these years and then these forces that are larger than you take over,” she wrote. “It\u2019s harrowing.” This Frontline Mama is a writer. Writing is her solace. She wrote her feelings about the COVID vaccine peer pressure in this essay and granted me permission to publish it here.<\/p>\n

Facing the Possible Death of My Child, I Weep
\n<\/strong>by Frontline Mama
\n<\/span>Special to JenniferMargulis.net<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

I didn\u2019t used to be a woman who cried all the time. I used to believe tears were a form of weakness and a waste of energy. But now, all I do is weep<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My daughter is nineteen years old. She has underlying health conditions. She’s prone to blood clots<\/a> and sensitive to several drugs. These health challenges make her a poor candidate for the experimental COVID shots.<\/p>\n

Not anti-vaccine, just worried<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Her father and I are not anti-vaccine. We simply want her to wait. But the art college she attends\u2014one of the best in the world\u2014requires she take the Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, or Moderna before returning in the fall. They won\u2019t provide housing if she\u2019s unvaccinated either.<\/p>\n

And even if she\u00a0could<\/em>\u00a0get a medical exemption (which she can since the vaccine is not safe for her), my daughter herself insists she\u00a0must<\/em>\u00a0get the shots. She\u2019s willing to trade her future health, and possibly even her life, for social acceptance and the approval of her friends and teachers. The COVID vaccine peer pressure is that strong.<\/p>\n

Around the world reports roll in about the dangers of these experimental vaccines. But still President Biden says, \u201cI promise you, they’re safe.\u201d And the media grinds out the message:\u00a0Take the shot. Take the shot. You must take the shot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

{Editor’s note: Read more about the push to get a needle in every arm here<\/a>.}<\/p>\n

Iatrogenic deaths<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Both my parents died young due to doctor error. My mother was thirty four. My father, forty. What I learned is that people\u2014well intended people, including doctors\u2014make mistakes. Vaccinating young people against COVID-19 is a mistake<\/a>. It\u2019s a huge one, I fear, and thousands of parents around the world know this, already having lost<\/a> their beautiful children, seen their children suffer devastating reactions<\/a>, or themselves suffered bad outcomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Time runs out on my beloved daughter now. We have about two, maybe three weeks before she does this to herself.<\/p>\n

I’m scared my daughter will die<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I\u2019ve pulled together a life insurance policy, planned with a local mortuary, checked and double checked that her health insurance covers any and all treatment for whatever side effects might hit her. We had blood panels done to get clear on her baseline conditions, and we’ve shored up her health with supplements and good nutrition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done everything I can think of and now I\u2019m left to wait. At night, grisly images play through my mind. She\u2019s being led up the steps to the gallows. She stands blindfolded before a firing squad. And the worst image of all, which comes from Shirley Jackson’s 1948 short story\u00a0The Lottery<\/em>, is that everyone my daughter knows grabs a rock. I see my beloved daughter\u2014the one with the gray-blue eyes, with the stunning artistic talent she planned to use for recycled textile design, and with the easy personality that made her a favorite of teachers who always reported she was a \u201cdelight to have in class\u201d\u2014brought down by stones thrown at her by her own community.<\/p>\n

I can’t stop crying<\/strong><\/h3>\n

And I cry.<\/p>\n

My child is a sacrificial lamb now. Covid vaccine peer pressure is trumping science, commonsense, and safety. Her fate has been stolen from us by the World Health Organization, my federal and local government, Fauci, the media, school administrators and teachers, her \u201cfriends,\u201d and countless others I cannot name or know but who are making a fortune on the whole show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not alone in this thing either. Thousands of other mothers face down the death, or maiming, of their own children, and I\u2019m sure they weep too. Even as the media encourages children and young adults to ignore their parents’ wait-and-see approach and rush to get the vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrying is good. Crying is right,\u201d Clarissa Pinkola Estes wrote in\u00a0Women Who Run with the Wolves.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt does not cure the dilemma, but it enables the process to continue instead of collapsing.\u201d<\/p>\n

We are in a dilemma as human beings and perhaps allowing our tears to fall without stop, apology, or self-recrimination is what is needed most now. Perhaps if we just keep crying we will, somehow, raise the waters on this dry and confusing time in human history. And, perhaps, perhaps, our tears will deliver us downstream. To a future that doesn\u2019t require parents to sacrifice their own children and doesn’t require children to sacrifice their own lives.<\/p>\n

~Frontline Mama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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