My wife hasn't got it on account of several of her doctors recommending against it due to her specific health concerns. We did not get it for our daughter because there appears to be no significant need to do so, children's risk factor being minimal by all accounts. I did not get it primarily as political protest; I regarded and still regard the federal government's attempt to push and its use of corporations in a constitutional end-around it as unacceptably totalitarian for a republic. I made protest against the various mandates at numerous locations from about mid 2020 into 2021. Responses ranged from limited support to shouting, threats, being shoved or spit on or otherwise assaulted, permanently barred from numerous stores, and escorted away by police on some occasions. Probably the only reason I wasn't outright arrested was I happened to know most of the officers in question or they at least knew my name due to family connection. The wife has also been treated poorly by a lot of people, including some family members, in spite of her own refusal being medically grounded. Neither of us have received so much as a single apology to date.
The folks who we've talked to it about and encouraged to get it fall into the same at-risk groups you describe.
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