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CloudWatcher

(1,924 posts)
Sat Dec 19, 2020, 06:57 PM Dec 2020

Ken Buck won't take the vaccine

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/12/18/ken-buck-colorado-covid-19-vaccine/

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck said Friday that he will not be taking a COVID-19 vaccine.

“It is my choice,” the Windsor Republican told Fox Business Channel. “I have the freedom to decide if I’m going to take a vaccine or not and in this case I am not going to take the vaccine."
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“I’m a healthy person and I think most Americans are healthy,” Buck added. “I think what we should do is we should focus on the at-risk populations in America, make sure those are the people who get this vaccine first, make sure the health care workers that want the vaccine get the vaccine as soon as possible. But I am not going to take a vaccine.”

I really wonder if he's even capable of realizing that if he takes the vaccine, it could prevent his infecting others. It's not just all about him. I hope he just holds his breath for the next year or so. Anyone getting near him is at risk.
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Ken Buck won't take the vaccine (Original Post) CloudWatcher Dec 2020 OP
Good for you Buck, please proceed, roll the dice fool. Thomas Hurt Dec 2020 #1
getting elected and being smart don't necessarily go hand and hand NRaleighLiberal Dec 2020 #2
Opened up a can of stupid and did partake. Sneederbunk Dec 2020 #3
Hopefully he won't catch it before everyone around him gets the vax. Grokenstein Dec 2020 #4
Colorful! soothsayer Dec 2020 #6
my body my choice CloudWatcher Dec 2020 #8
I am healthy too, Bucko... ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2020 #5
Buck, go for it! NCjack Dec 2020 #7

NRaleighLiberal

(60,505 posts)
2. getting elected and being smart don't necessarily go hand and hand
Sat Dec 19, 2020, 07:00 PM
Dec 2020

as we've now seem do many more times than we hoped to.

Grokenstein

(5,832 posts)
4. Hopefully he won't catch it before everyone around him gets the vax.
Sat Dec 19, 2020, 07:07 PM
Dec 2020

Then for all I care he can die gurgling "my body my choice" between bucketloads of snot as his organs break down.

CloudWatcher

(1,924 posts)
8. my body my choice
Sat Dec 19, 2020, 08:57 PM
Dec 2020

Yes, your body, your choice. But it's our common air. I'd like to seal up the orifices of every anti-masker that says that.

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