Kinda crazy people are being encouraged to take an experimental vaccine that’s not FDA approved, that’s been only tested for less than a year, with no liability by the vaccine companies if it proves to be harmful down the line because of the prep act. But yeah, let’s all rush to take it! Fucking mind boggling
This is where I am at.
The people screaming follow the science are actually just listening to the press and whatever scientists they trot out. They have no idea about the actual science.
I have a friend who has studied and actually developed weapons grade biological threats in order for them to be studied and countermeasures developed in the event another country comes up with something similar. Weapons grade virology.
She is refusing to get the vaccine and I trust her judgment. Neither one of us are anti-vaxxers. We have all of our vaccinations otherwise up to date and our children are vaccinated as well with the exception of covid.
But there are just way too many unknowns and it has just not been out long enough for anyone to accurately know the long-term side effects.
We both agree that once it achieves FDA approval and standards, that's likely when we will get our shots but not a moment before.
And you don't need to be a whack job conspiracy theorist to think like that either. After all, we already saw issues with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
That said, I fully support anyone who is in the high risk group getting the vaccine simply because they are already high risk. Both my father-in-law and my own parents have gotten a vaccine and they are in there late 70s. High Target high risk group and completely okay with them getting it to protect themselves. But that is also because any long-term effects will likely not be important because they already on the back end of their lives anyway.
But for myself and my wife and our children, we are holding off. God forbid we find out that the early vaccines end up causing a sort of sterilization that prevents my kids from getting pregnant when they get married.
Not to mention in February before covid became widespread well known, we all swear we likely had it as the symptoms we experienced fit it exactly and knocked out all of us for a couple weeks and left us with some lung distress for several months after.
And it is true that for disease like covid, the actual science speaks more to once you have it you don't need the vaccine because science is proving that your antibodies, once you've been exposed to the disease, are actually changing to match the disease so the disease can no longer get a foothold even if it tries to mutate.
There's also the jaded aspect of it. Zinc and hydrochloroquine were proven to be an effective cure for having covid even for those with high risk.
However a bunch of scare tactics were put out to try to scare people away including someone who they claimed took it and died in Florida when the reality is the idiot drink fish cleaner because one of the ingredients was similar. Swear to God that's such a Florida thing.
But the reality is, hydrochloroquine is out of patent and therefore the drug companies cannot make any money off of it whereas the pharmaceutical companies are making Bank off of this vaccine. A wise person once told me to follow the money in any situation if I want my questions answered and frankly it fits here.
That said, I'm not going to judge anyone who is scared and does want to take the vaccine. And I'm certainly not one of these obnoxious types who is going to freak people out because I'm not wearing a mask in a store or any sort of crap like that - I believe in being respectful and cognizant giving the situation of other people that I'm not going to try to make them feel like they're in danger, within reason, just for an ego trip of my own.
But there are sincere legit reasons to not take the vaccine right now. And I'm not going to mock people for not taking the vaccine just like I won't mock people who do take it. Everyone is in a different place and has their reasons. And a lot of the science around this has been some shady shit.
Just remember that big tobacco also had their own scientists who said smoking was perfectly okay for you and they even had doctors going on TV commercials talking about how smooth it goes down your throat and can help a sore throat.
That's why appeals to authority never work on me. There's always some idiot out there or idiot company that intentionally abuses the system.
Hence why I always follow the money.
Anyway I'm done with pointlessly rambling...