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Cook: Your neighbor won’t get vaccinated? It’s not selfishness.

Associated Press File Photo / A pharmacy technician loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine, in March.
Associated Press File Photo / A pharmacy technician loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine, in March. Associated Press File Photo / A pharmacy technician loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine, in March.

By David Cook 4 min read

Don’t call them selfish.

The people who refuse to get the vaccine?

They’re not selfish. It’s not selfishness.

I’ve got a buddy, a 3 a.m. friend: if I call in the middle of the night, say, 3 a.m., and I’m in trouble, he’ll come running, no questions asked.

He’s hard-working. Grounded. Smart. All hat … and cattle.