You haven’t gotten a COVID-19 vaccine* and you aren’t planning to anytime soon. You didn’t get a single shot and you’re sure you won’t, ever.
Or maybe you got one or two, or even three, and now you’re absolutely positively done.
Or maybe you’re still on the fence, taking a wait-and-see approach.
For all these situations, how do you talk to your family and friends about why you’re saying, “No, thank you”? Many readers have asked me for help with this lately.
Try searching up answers on the internet and you’ll get no help. Google makes it sound like there are no valid reasons to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine. What you will get, however, are several pages of Big Medicine articles on how to refute the concerns of the “vaccine hesitant.”
But if you’re here reading this right now, it’s likely you’re not exactly vaccine hesitant any more, as least not when it comes to this particular vaccine. You’re more likely vaccine hell-no.
To help you talk to family and friends—and anyone else who asks—I’ve compiled 50 reasons why people aren’t getting the COVID-19 vaccines.
Given how often we original, organic humans have been canceled outright, ghosted by erstwhile friends, and banned from weddings, funerals, and other family functions, I know you didn’t pull the decision not to get vaccinated out your left nostril. Likely, you thought long and hard about it and spent dozens of hours researching, reading, and talking it through with people you trust.
Honestly, I don’t know if any of these reasons will help other people see and understand your point of view. But I do know that it’s always good to dialogue. I’ve done my best to keep the answers short. Most are just a sentence or two each.
Question From Your Baffled Family Member: Wait, what? Why Didn’t You Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
Fifty (50) answers:
1. I have concerns that the risks of this vaccine outweigh the benefits.
2. The vaccines don’t stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, some the most recent science—done by a team of more than a dozen researchers in the United Kingdom—shows the vaccine may actually increase disease spread. What do you think about this peer-reviewed science?
3. A _____ [fill in the blank. In my case, it was a reader. Maybe in your case, it was a friend, colleague, or family member] contacted me last week because he got a pulmonary embolism after being vaccinated. I guess I’m more worried vaccine-induced blood clots in the lungs and brain, than I am about COVID-19.
4. I’d like to have a baby someday. Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay, who has a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology, has testified publicly that the vaccines impact fertility and stated that they aren’t safe for women (or men) of childbearing age.
5. I’m concerned about how these vaccines may be damaging people’s hearts in both the short and long-term. Did you know that, based on what he’s seeing at his hospital in Japan, cardiac surgeon, Dr. Kenji Yamamoto, has said we should stop giving these vaccines?
6. The fact that there have been over 30,000 reported deaths following the administration of these vaccines makes me think I’d rather take the risk of getting COVID-19 rather than the risk of dying, or having an adverse outcome, from the vaccine.
7. I am up-to-date on all recommended vaccines, except against the flu. In our family we don’t do vaccines that have so little efficacy that they have to be given every year. The COVID-19 vaccines are less efficacious than the flu vaccines. They’re being recommended every three to six months. When does it end?
8. I’m not interested in funding the multi-million-dollar luxury condominium and other real estate purchases of pharmaceutical executives.
9. My friend’s husband is a pharmaceutical representative. He, his wife, and their four children chose not to get the vaccine. When insiders say, “No, thank you,” that makes me think twice.
10. I have natural immunity: in all this time, despite numerous confirmed exposures, I haven’t gotten as much as a sniffle.
11. I’ve had COVID-19 and I breezed through it without a vaccine.
12. I’ve had COVID-19 and my doctor helped me treat it with natural remedies that actually worked.
13. I’ve had COVID-19 already, twice. I wouldn’t get a vaccine against measles or any other virus if I already had the virus, so, I obviously don’t need this vaccine.
14. It’s against my religion to accept any pharmaceutical product that was made using cell lines grown on aborted fetal tissue.
15. African countries where almost no one has been vaccinated have much better outcomes than Western countries with high vaccination rates. That makes me think it may be better to wait on this vaccine.
16. I read an article by Wayne Allyn Root that 33 of his vaccinated family members and loved ones either got sick or died in just eight months after coming to his wedding. He’s been vocal about his safety concerns about this vaccine and knows that all 33 were vaccinated. The ones who were not are still happy, healthy, and alive. The CDC needs to investigate “death clusters” like this one. Instead? Radio silence.
17. Operation Warp Speed was an initiative under President Donald Trump. I didn’t trust his administration to make a safe vaccine.
18. President Joseph Biden has been relentlessly pushing this vaccine, yet he and his wife have both gotten COVID. I don’t trust Biden’s administration with my health decisions—those, I make with my doctor (see #43 and #44.)
19. Dr. Anthony Fauci has overseen public health during a time when, by all measurable standards, America’s health has declined. I don’t trust Fauci, a career politician. Do you?
20. I think Bill Gates is an adulterer, liar, and cheat who should spend his time on computer viruses not on manipulating the media and funding public relations vaccine shame campaigns.
21. There have been so many sudden deaths recently, especially of otherwise young healthy people, like this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one. All of these young people were vaccinated and had no known underlying health conditions. The fact that this vaccine is the #1 cause of coincidence, and seems to also be the #1 cause of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, really gives me pause.
22. I don’t want my genitals to necrotize, which is what happened to this 84-year-old woman in Japan.
23. I don’t want my genitals to necrotize, which is what happened to this 16-year-old young woman in America.
24. I am allergic to __________ [fill in the blank with any of the following ingredients in the Pfizer vaccine: mRNA, lipids ((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate), 2 [(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N-ditetradecylacetamide, 1,2-Distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, and cholesterol), potassium chloride, monobasic potassium phosphate, sodium chloride, dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate, and sucrose]
25. I am allergic to __________ [fill in the blank with any of the following ingredients in the Moderna vaccine: mRNA), lipids (SM-102, polyethylene glycol [PEG] 2000 dimyristoyl glycerol [DMG], cholesterol, and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine [DSPC]), tromethamine, tromethamine hydrochloride, acetic acid, sodium acetate trihydrate, and sucrose.]
26. I am allergic to __________ [fill in the blank with any of the following ingredients in the J&J vaccine: Recombinant, replication-incompetent adenovirus type 26 expressing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, citric acid monohydrate, trisodium citrate dihydrate, ethanol, 2 hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HBCD), polysorbate-80, sodium chloride.]
27. I can always change my mind and get the vaccine later. But if something happens to me, I can’t un-do having been vaccinated.
28. I believe the benefit of this vaccine has been greatly exaggerated.
29. Countries around the world are quietly compensating families of people who have died from the vaccine or become permanently injured. But America is not. If something happens to me or a loved one, we will go bankrupt. I’d rather not take that risk.
30. They lied about tobacco not causing cancer.
31. They lied about diethylstilbestrol being safe for pregnant women.
32. They lied to African-American men in Tuskegee, Alabama about syphilis. They said they were treating this disease but they were actually letting black men get sick and die so they could see how the disease ran its course.
33. Doctors treating COVID-19 and speaking openly about their safety concerns about the vaccine are being silenced. At no time in history—ever—were the censors and silencers on the right side.
34. No one has anything to gain financially from sounding the alarm about the lack of safety, efficacy, and necessity of these COVID-19 vaccines.
35. The moneyed elite—Big Pharma, Big Medicine, hospitals, doctors—have everything to gain from ignoring the “glaring alarm bells,” as one doctor put it, about the safety, efficacy, and necessity of these COVID-19 vaccines. I trust doctors putting their careers on the line over Big Pharma execs buying luxury condos (see #8), don’t you?
36. My decision not to vaccinate will not affect you if the vaccine works. The only person it will harm is me.
37. Survival of the fittest: Your vaccine will keep you safe and my immune system will keep me safe. Let’s check back in five years and see which one is working better. (See #16.)
38. Sars-CoV-2 is a coronavirus, like the common cold. There’s never been an effective vaccine developed against a SARS virus and this one isn’t effective either.
39. Vaccine injury lawyers are so overwhelmed with cases that many don’t have the capacity to take a new client. I’d rather not have to try to hire one (see #29).
40. I don’t ascribe to “forced compliance.” The fact that getting vaccinated became a prerequisite to participating in public life made me very, very uncomfortable.
41. The CDC takes millions of dollars in “donations” from industry, including Big Pharma, Big Tech, and Big Medicine. But they actively obfuscate the exact amounts and don’t disclose their gross conflicts of interest. I don’t think the CDC is able to give me objective advice about vaccines in general or this vaccine in particular.
42. I’d rather you be the guinea pig with this vaccine. After we see who does better (See #37, #28, and #16), I’ll revisit my decision.
43. Doctors who have never spoken up against a single vaccine, or refused a single vaccine for themselves, like this one, this one, this one, and this one, say this particular vaccine simply is not safe. (See #33.)
44. I’d be happy to give you a list of a hundred doctors, their areas of expertise, and their academic (or other) affiliations, in exchange for your list of 100 doctors who have done the equivalent amount of research and concluded the COVID-19 vaccines are safe.
45. Sweden decided against vaccinating children ages 5 to 11. If children don’t need it, I suspect adults don’t either. #BeLikeSweden.
46. Denmark decided to halt its vaccination program at the end of May. If the Danes don’t need it, maybe the Americans don’t either. #BeLikeDenmark.
47. I got every COVID-19 vaccine I was told to get. Until now. But now that I know they don’t work and the companies know it too, Pfizer is seeking authorization for a new one. Me, I have booster fatigue (for which no vaccine exists).
48. I’ve read ___ [insert number here. In my case it would be “over 200”] peer-reviewed scientific articles about these vaccines in order to make an informed decision. The science to date does not support vaccination. If that changes in the future, I will reconsider my decision.
49. This is an experimental technology for which a wait-and-see approach is going to be the best and safest option. Unless you’re a pharmaceutical executive who wants to buy a luxury condominium in downtown Boston, that is. (See #8.)
50. One of the inventors of mRNA technology is also one of the most vocal opponents of the vaccine. Yet there’s been a concerted campaign to silence him (see #33). If you know medical history (see #30, #31, and #32), you know that the inventor of diethylstilbestrol, Dr. Charles Dodds, a medical doctor and biochemist, was adamantly against giving this dangerous drug to pregnant women. No one listened to him. An estimated five to ten millions DES daughters and sons suffered from infertility, had life-threatening cancers, and even post-adolescent psychosis. Many millions were unable to have children or died as a result.
* I don’t have the word “vaccine” in the title of this post because the social media bots are out in full force these days, suspending or even deleting the accounts of doctors, senior scientists, and healthcare coaches. When they aren’t expunging us or redacting public information, they’re putting users in 7 to 30-day jail sentences (raises hand).
Readers, what was your reason for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine? Or, if you got one or two, why did you stop there? Please share your thoughts and experiences in the comment section below.
Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning science journalist. She is a contributing writer at The Epoch Times, a former Fulbright grantee, and a sought-after speaker. Please support independent journalism by buying one of her books (click on the covers to learn more about each) or becoming a paid subscriber to Vibrant Life, which costs less than a cup of coffee a month.
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Jennifer - this is brilliant! What a lot of work you did to compile it. Thank you so much for all the people it will help. I will keep this for others who might need to read it.
My own reasons would be - I have been a vaccine researcher for over 34 years and have done thousands of hours of research, learning how toxic, dangerous, and often deadly, they all are. In addition, my two adult children were vaccine injured, and my husband died of a tetanus vaccine in 2019. The only time I was ever asked if I had the c-vaccine I responded spontaneously, "I never use western medicine at all," which is true. I would rather die than risk going to a hospital at this time in history. I will take my chances with prayer, love, rest and alternative medicine.
Great list! I could relate to some of your reasons, but I have my own. Take a look...
I rejected vaccination because I've been following the vaccine issue for a long time...way before COVID. I'm a natural health fan and have been steered away from Big Pharma by doctors who "saw the light" and have been teaching people how to think creatively and take charge of their own health with non-toxic methods and protocols. The movie "Vaxxed" convinced me that the mandatory vaccines for children in the U.S. have been responsible for not only autism, but many other autoimmune and neurological conditions for decades. If you add GMOs to that, we have a population of children in this country where 54% of them are sick with various diseases and conditions that are completely man-made. Since I don't trust our government (haven't for a long time) and don't trust Big Pharma (haven't for a long time), it just made perfect sense not to trust these incredibly rushed-to-market gene therapies. I just wish I could have convinced my family and some of my friends to reject the current COVID jabs, but each person is entitled to their own beliefs, so to avoid conflict I stopped trying to get them to change their minds. I love my family and friends, but I didn't want to jeopardize my relationship with them. I don't know if I've ever had COVID (I did come down with a cold 5 months ago and didn't get tested, but I beat the cold in 3 1/2 days using non-toxic supplements & colloidal silver), so even if it was the C virus, I'm thrilled about having natural immunity to it now. Now all we have to worry about is the WEF, the Young Global Leaders, the WHO, the UN, Bill Gates & his foundations, Big Tech, Big Media, Big Pharma, the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, and all the other bad actors in governments around the world who seem to want to kill us off!