Vaccines are very simple medicines. The way they work has very little chance of causing major issues in the vast majority of people. Vaccines have been one of the most successful, most reliable and most effective treatments for major viral infections for more than half a century.
People take boner pills, SSRIs, hormones, and opioids like ****ing candy and then get all "I want to know what I'm putting in my body" when you offer them a ****ing vaccine. These same people often drink, smoke, do recreational drugs, drink 128 ounces of diet soda a day, and don't wash their hands after touching public door knobs. Stop pretending like you give a **** about what you put in your body.
How ****ing dumb are people?
EDIT: one more thing, the same anti-vax idiots on the far right also like to dismantle regulations about the things industry can pump into the air we breathe, the water we drink and the soil in which we grow our food, because freedom. Then they want to throw a tantrum about their freedom to not wear a mask and to not get a vaccine. Grow the **** up.
Not to mention, a lot of the drugs and antivirals to treat Covid are much more dangerous then the vaccine.
On top of that, if you end up needing a ventilator, it is quite common for Covid patients (and other vent patients) to be given a paralytic. Odds of getting off a vent once on it are very low, and spending final days agonizing on a vent while paralyzed is not the way I'd like to go. The vaccine has been proven to be highly effective against hospitalization or the need of a vent.
And while Covid does not hit kids as hard, hospitals are seeing a lot more kids with the Delta variant (some otherwise healthy).
I don't think we should force the vaccine on anyone, and won't say you aren't patriotic if you do not get it. Maybe less courteous to your fellow man, but nothing that society should require.
Having seen the strain unvaccinated have put on our medical community, and the stress and anxiety it has put on our medical providers alone is bad enough. My wife is current doing rounds in the ER and with multiple Covid patients dying per week (and often per day) she is at her emotional limit.
And as stated earlier, doctors and other medical providers are pretty pissed about it. And while I know they do their best to treat every patient as a human (including convicted murderers), they are human, and I would not want my chart having a glaring red flag to in any way stoke anger in a person(s) I am depending on to save my life.
I will say that most people not getting it seem very uninformed as I have not heard any compelling arguments why one shouldn't get the vaccine.
And even those that are somewhat more informed still baffle me.
It seems comparable to a situation where you have to get across a roaring class IV river to avoid an impending natural disaster. You can take the bridge, which statistics posted by the bridge based on peer reviewed testing to date by the Corps of Engineers show safety of 99.9% or you can swim, which we know many will get across, but many also die (say 2-3% chance of death) as well as much higher morbidity factors.
It seems like a lot of people still want to swim. Some because they don't want to be forced to take the bridge, others seem to be convinced by a guy in a van down by the river telling people they shouldn't take the bridge based on some unproven tale (let's say a bridge troll) even though the government and other professionals have documented the bridge's safety and if you take the time to inspect the bridge from the bank there is clearly no troll other than the van guy spouting false information.
Hopefully cases continue to decline (we'll see what being more indoors in winter does) and we can move past the pandemic in the near future.
