Black couple who refused vaccine due to Tuskegee syphilis study die from COVID-19 three hours apart

[LenaBaby61]

38. I wonder if they were genuinely, honestly, truly fearful and distrustful.

I'm Native-American and African-American. Both parents grew up in a Jim Crow South. Many relatives on my late Mom's side were used as experiments from Tuskegee. She knew many of them well, and none of the men could produce children, and their over all health suffered terribly and some died at very young ages. At age 3, my late father remembered the smell of smoke from the Tulsa Race Riots (He'd be 103 if he were alive). Both parents KNEW slaves, and the stories they told them they my parents shared with me still haunts me at night sometimes, and I'm 60.

I say all of this to say that I don't think that those people were making a statement. I can't say for certain, but I think that maybe they were scared of the Covid-19 shots. My nieces know many African-Americans in their 30's and 40's who are scared to take the Covid-19 shots, because of the history of Tuskegee, and they still don't trust this country. See George Floyd, who was murdered in front of the world and see other AA who are still being murdered by many racist and out of control cops. Both nieces took their shots months ago, and are doing well. One niece is a nurse, and she's encouraging as many AA to take the Covid-19 shots/mask-up/wash their hands as she can, and she told me that for the most part, all she's asked have taken, and completed their vaccine shots and are following masking rules etc. She is having trouble with several though to be honest, and like I said these are very young people. I've been vaccinated for many months, and I'm fine, but I know a few elderly AA women in their 80's & early 90's who absolutely refuse to take the Covid-19 shots. I at least got a few of them to wear masks/stay distanced when people come to their doors or when they are with relatives driving around, but that's as far as I've gotten with them. I'm going to keep trying, and keep offering to make their appointments and go with them, but so far it's a HARD no go. All are mentally sharp, but still won't take the shots due to years of what they/family members/friends/neighbors saw and experienced in their life times down South during Jim Crow/lynching's etc. Their own grands/children can't make then get their shots, but I'll still keep on trying, because when I look at them, I see my late Mom, late Aunts et al., and so I'll keep trying to convince them to get their Covid-19 shots 🤞🏻