Disclaimer: Not trying to change anyone's mind here, and I'm highly opposed to almost all gov coercion. Just some thought food. I would like to offer some counterpoints though
@sgt_zim
It is inevitable that everyone is going to contract it.
Maybe. People catch influenza once per decade on average. I see no hurry or benefit of becoming infected, as you likely can get it again at some point when your immunity wanes.
There are better predictors of good outcomes than the vaccine - namely a serum Vitamin D level of 50-60ng/mL and an absence of co-morbidities like obesity, Type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc.
I believe this is completely false, but admittedly I don't remember the numbers for vitamin D. Studies have the vaccines providing a ~20x reduction in severe disease outcomes. CDC has several case studies out, as does Moderna and probably the others too.
If you can show some studies that claim obesity and low vitamin D increasing severe Covid 20x, I'll stand corrected. I did some searching and didn't see any. Best I could find was obesity increasing severe disease ~3x per CDC, which is blown away by being unvaccinated vs vaccinated at 20x.
At any rate, 2/3 of Americans are overweight or obese, and they can't well change that overnight. Would you recommend they get the vaccine then?
Every single medication you ingest carries a level of risk. The long term risk of these mRNA "vaccines" is utterly unknown.
Technically true. As vaccines go however, these are low risk compared to others. The trials were very open and thorough. By now,
billions of people have gotten one of the vaccines. Without a doubt, some have been harmed by it. The statistical risk of being harmed by the virus is several orders of magnitude greater than by the vaccine however. By choosing inaction (not getting vaccinated), you're still making a choice to put yourself at much greater personal risk, statistically.
It's true this is the first mRNA one on the market. Scientists have been using mRNA for a long time and understand how it works. Sure, it's
possible there's a hidden long term affect, but extremely unlikely. Almost every vaccine ever attempted shows it's negative effects within a couple of months. These have been out in humans for over a year without some surprise third arm growing. The reason vaccine trials normally take so long is because it takes years for enough people in the trial to become infected with the disease, not because they're waiting to see a hidden vaccine side effect years later.
Have you thought about the long term effects of becoming infected? You have a chance of all sorts of disability, organ damage, chronic fatigue, etc. I even saw one large study of Covid disease causing IQ scores to drop in people who had recovered, roughly proportional to how severe the infection was. This happened even in people with a 'minor' infection. We're still learning about the virus too, so this isn't a case of going with the 'devil you know'.
Cognitive biases are not doing us any good during this pandemic. I'd argue we need to crunch the numbers in a detached, analytical way and reject our instincts and intuition if we want to be competent risk assessors.