Are you getting the vaccine? - Absolute trashfire thread, please enter with caution

I'm definitely not an anti-vaxxer but if I get this vaccine at all, it will be once the effects are more well known. This is the first mRNA vaccine to be rolled out, and Moderna had all but abandoned the technology a few years ago because of the side-effects. This is all one big experiment. It may turn out that the vaccine is fine, but we need more data. I'm also not in a high-risk group and statistically speaking, even if I got the WuFlu I'd probably be fine. So I don't see a pressing need to rush to get the shot.
 
I threw my ticket in the lottery bucket now that I'm eligible. Both my parents were vaccinated, both with little to no issues. FWIW I think masks are marginally effective at best and Fauci is a hack with delusions of grandeur.
 
Allow me to entertain a different question. Why would one willingly let himself be injected with a concoction of which he knows not? Why should we take on faith the word of government experts and mainstream media and not hold them to the same empirical standards as everyone else? If these vaccines were truly safe why are the manufacturers shielded from liability? Why do so many, after getting their dose, suffer adverse reactions if not outright die afterwards?

I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but these vaccines - They have a lot of red flags, and I don't hope to stay in my country before they mandate that I play russian roulette with my immune system to travel either internationally or worse domestically. I have no interest in taking part in a Soviet-style internal passport system, nor do intend to stay to see firsthand how shit hits the fan here.
I can think of nothing more cucked than getting a vaccine. You let another dude inject fluids into you? Cool. Totally not gay.
Unless your parents were hardcore anti-vaxxers I can guarantee you've at least had a flu shot as a child so sorry you're already a cuck.

Now take your damn vaccine already.
 
I've always been seriously annoyed at anti-vaxxers because there are decades of R&D put into the existing ones proving their safety.

Now I feel myself balking at taking the covid-vax because there aren't decades of R&D involved.

This doesn't mean people who are scared of the polio vaccine have a valid argument though.
 
I'm gonna wait a couple months and see. I'm not an anti-vaxxer but like others have said this is new and experimental, we don't know the longterm ramifications. Plus, if taking this doesn't give me a golden ticket back to normalcy then I really don't see a need to get it anyway. I never leave my house and I'm young with no pre-existing conditions.
 
Until more new variants pop up, then be sure to get your 20 booster shots and wear 15 masks while keeping 1 mile of social distance.
Just 90 more years to flatten the curve! We are all in this together!


I encourage parents to get their kids vaccinated against measles, TB, whooping cough, influenza in younger kids; otherwise children are the last group we should be using as guinea pigs over a disease that statistically affects them the least.
Yes I agree with you
 
I'll accept it at a doctor's visit in the next year or so if it's offered, but I'm not going out looking for it. Of course, if the safety record holds up terribly, I'll reconsider.
 
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I've always been seriously annoyed at anti-vaxxers because there are decades of R&D put into the existing ones proving their safety.

Now I feel myself balking at taking the covid-vax because there aren't decades of R&D involved.

This doesn't mean people who are scared of the polio vaccine have a valid argument though.
I mean yeah.
A big difference between this vaccine and the polio vaccine is risk vs reward.

If I got bit by Savanna Vine snake tommorow, a venomous species for which there is no antivenom, I would gladly risk the side-effects of any experimental drug over the >50% chance I die a slow agonizing death hemorrhaging out of burning blisters. I don't care if the experimental drug has a 10% chance of killing me, the reward outweighs the risk.
Conversely, even if a rhinovirus ("cold") vaccine was 100% safe and effective, why would I take it when there is otherwise no risk of death or serious illness for me?

Why should those of us who are young, healthy (and already recovered) fucking bother with this shit when we are the darwinian fit group anways?
The reward doesn't significantly outweigh the risks.

For the record, I fully support the "right to try". The boomers and fatties have every right to try an experimental vaccine - that's their choice and not mine.
 
I mean yeah.
A big difference between this vaccine and the polio vaccine is risk vs reward.

If I got bit by Savanna Vine snake tommorow, a venomous species for which there is no antivenom, I would gladly risk the side-effects of any experimental drug over the >50% chance I die a slow agonizing death hemorrhaging out of burning blisters. I don't care if the experimental drug has a 10% chance of killing me, the reward outweighs the risk.
Conversely, even if a rhinovirus ("cold") vaccine was 100% safe and effective, why would I take it when there is otherwise no risk of death or serious illness for me?

Why should those of us who are young, healthy (and already recovered) fucking bother with this shit when we are the darwinian fit group anways?
The reward doesn't significantly outweigh the risks.

For the record, I fully support the "right to try". The boomers and fatties have every right to try an experimental vaccine - that's their choice and not mine.
A "biologist" who doesn't understand the concept of herd immunity :story:

You can admit you're lying about being a biologist any time now
 
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