Update from my niece, who works in a Gulf Coast MS hospital.

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34. 'Nother Sooner here, too

and I agree with you. Many people are not intelligent enough to figure out or make a decision about the vaccine, especially if they are heavily influenced or pressured by family, friends, and neighbors, or are economically, or medically prohibited. I suspect that there are multiple reasons for people not getting, or not being able to get the vaccine, but I also have some similar feelings of anger about the obstinate, hateful contrarians who just want to thumb their noses at Libs. and Dems., or anyone else who tries to tell them what to do.

This could have been over, or under control so much sooner if more of us still felt, or had been taught civic responsibility, instead of the "do your own thing and to hell with everyone else" mindset. It's a little late now but, we should be teaching civic responsibility, compassion, and problem solving in all of our schools through at least high school. I also think that we could convince many more people to get vaccinated with a compassionate, straight forward approach to information that would overcome their hesitancy. Getting angry with them won't help.