Most traditional "inactive pathogen" vaccines have years of data behind them, and generally they're safe - although do your own research as there are exceptions
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Covid vaccines (the majority at least) are mRNA based, and there's no long-term data for their use
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This doesn't mean they are safe or unsafe
It simply means we don't know the long-term results of using them
We could do 5 years of study to make absolutely sure there are no unintended side effects. And if the disease allows that kind of time table it's preferred. The problem is the longer a virus is around the higher the chance it will mutate to become immune to your vaccine (then you have to start over). So the cycle would never end if you have a strict long term research policy. The good thing is the odds of this having a massively detrimental side effect is low (people need to stop watching I Am Legend as a historical documentary) and the benefits are high (preventable serious illness/death).
It's a coronavirus. They've been around for a long time. They show up, do some damage, and then rapidly evolve to be more infectious and less severe.
And you don't get to decide for anyone else what benefits are worth it and what risks aren't. You've already lost by thinking it will ever go away. It's just going to join the seasonal cycle and be a fact of life, like every other bug of It's kind.
Yeah, we do get to decide. That's how public safety works. That's why you don't get to drive 150mph b/c you think YOU are safe at that speed. It is not the flu. Notice any "seasonal polio" kicking around? Logic is a waste on someone like you that doesn't research out of stubbornness or ignorance.
That isn't how public safety works. At all.
Also isn't how traffic laws, work. It's rather an entirely different subject, actually.
And polio isn't seasonal, but it also isn't a coronavirus.
As for research, pray tell. All the new variants popping up, are they more infectious? More lethal? Does the vaccine reliably protect from them? And compared to the unvaccinated?
What do you know about the common cold? MERS? The precedent set by the Anthrax vaccine? The counting and testing methods around C19? Demographics and risk factors? The development of other vaccines VS these ones?
I'll stop there, for now.
I believe in vaccines, too.
I just don't trust anything recieved on a rush order and surrounded by calls for authoritarianism in response to something deliberately misrepresented as way worse than it is.
It is quite annoying when people take a highly complex issue like many different vaccines, viruses, and environmental conditions and boil it down to a glib soundbite like "Vaccines are safe"
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Carl Jung said "Most people don't have ideas. Ideas have people"
Do they assume it's negative? Or maybe they just want to wait and see how things play out. So long as you're not an old person under Cuomo's jurisdiction, you'll probably be fine. Maybe these particular vaccines do cause death. Maybe they have some other side effects that have yet to become apparent. Maybe they're rather benign, but are just aren't effective enough to justify dealing with the side-effects or braving the additional risk they pose.
It isn't yours or anyone else's place to lie to people or omit the facts to try and trick them into making, what you think under these dubious conditions, is the right choice.
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Covid vaccines (the majority at least) are mRNA based, and there's no long-term data for their use
.
This doesn't mean they are safe or unsafe
It simply means we don't know the long-term results of using them
And you don't get to decide for anyone else what benefits are worth it and what risks aren't. You've already lost by thinking it will ever go away. It's just going to join the seasonal cycle and be a fact of life, like every other bug of It's kind.
Also isn't how traffic laws, work. It's rather an entirely different subject, actually.
And polio isn't seasonal, but it also isn't a coronavirus.
As for research, pray tell. All the new variants popping up, are they more infectious? More lethal? Does the vaccine reliably protect from them? And compared to the unvaccinated?
I'll stop there, for now.
I just don't trust anything recieved on a rush order and surrounded by calls for authoritarianism in response to something deliberately misrepresented as way worse than it is.
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Carl Jung said "Most people don't have ideas. Ideas have people"
It isn't yours or anyone else's place to lie to people or omit the facts to try and trick them into making, what you think under these dubious conditions, is the right choice.