Are people too self-righteous for refusing covid vaccines?

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20 Nov 2020, 9:04 am

If I was American I wouldn't take them either.

Should be done in time for them being tested etc. Stay home until that. Should be sorted according to who's most vulnerable and not according to who volunteers first or all at once.

I'm not so it's between me, my confidence in overcoming needle phobia and my parents' safety (they have theirs before I have mine, which is as it should be)


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20 Nov 2020, 9:09 am

I have already been in contact with my health care provider and people at Pfizer to get the vaccine ASAP.


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20 Nov 2020, 9:58 am

I heard the vaccine will be administered according to priority.
And that most likely healthcare workers will be first ie the large scale but short term guinea pigs.
It is noteworthy that some people did experience serious side effects from the 2009 H1N1 vaccine.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/conce ... y-flu.html



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20 Nov 2020, 9:59 am

It is noteworthy that some do experience serious side effects from any vaccine.


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20 Nov 2020, 10:02 am

The question is how long will it take before it's known what side effects from this one are.
And how many people will experience them.



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20 Nov 2020, 11:24 am

Tempus Fugit wrote:
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The problem with governments making it mandatory is, what steps would be taken to enforce it? Will people be forcibly inoculated against their will? Will they have everything taken from them if they don't capitulate? Will they be rounded up and placed in quarantine camps?



They would get arrested and go to jail or pay hefty fines. Maybe get their kids taken from them and get charged with child abuse. All for not getting vaccinated.


Is that the kind of world anyone wants to live in?


Honestly that wouldn't bother me. We already have child abuse and medical neglect against the law, how is not getting your children any required shots abuse or medical neglect?

Sadly there are lot of abuse you can do to your kids and get away with it. But however, schools here require kids to be vaccinated and ask for the medical records. I have no idea how anti vaccine nutters get around it. Maybe they forge the medical records for their kid, I don't know.


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20 Nov 2020, 11:49 am

League_Girl wrote:
Tempus Fugit wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
Tempus Fugit wrote:
The problem with governments making it mandatory is, what steps would be taken to enforce it? Will people be forcibly inoculated against their will? Will they have everything taken from them if they don't capitulate? Will they be rounded up and placed in quarantine camps?



They would get arrested and go to jail or pay hefty fines. Maybe get their kids taken from them and get charged with child abuse. All for not getting vaccinated.


Is that the kind of world anyone wants to live in?


Honestly that wouldn't bother me. We already have child abuse and medical neglect against the law, how is not getting your children any required shots abuse or medical neglect?

Sadly there are lot of abuse you can do to your kids and get away with it. But however, schools here require kids to be vaccinated and ask for the medical records. I have no idea how anti vaccine nutters get around it. Maybe they forge the medical records for their kid, I don't know.


Oh okay, where do you live? I feel that even though I was harsh on saying adults should get it, and perhaps it should be mandatory, I don't think I believe in children having to get it mandatorily though, at least not at this stage.



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20 Nov 2020, 12:07 pm

KT67 wrote:
More selfish than self-righteous.

The self-righteous thing would be taking it if it hadn't been developed (as it has) by scientists who underwent peer review.




You are absolutely correct, but I would include that those who intend to refuse COVID vaccinations lack intellect and empathy.


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20 Nov 2020, 12:28 pm



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20 Nov 2020, 12:45 pm

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Really it seems to me that if the most vulnerable people are vaccinated, then it won't make that much difference if the 99% who won't need to be hospitalized aren't.
I think there is a reason they want to vaccinate everyone, even the healthy young folk.

1. Some might think that if you're healthy enough and young enough then you are unlikely to die from it...but since we're talking life or death I think getting a vaccine to get the best survival odds might be prudent.

2. Some might think that if you're healthy enough and young enough then you are unlikely to die from it...but I've seen some articles where the medical community has observed long-term adverse medical impacts even for survivors and I think getting a vaccine to try to avoid long-term adverse medical impacts might be prudent.

3. I am not young enough and healthy enough that the above apply. I definitely want to be vaccinated. But even though the vaccines are expected to be very effective, they're not expected to be 100% effective. Even if I get vaccinated I might still be vulnerable so I'd still really like to not meet anyone who is infected, even if they're healthy enough and young enough that they'll probably be okay--because I might be one of the unlucky ones for whom the vaccine was not effective. The experts say they need a large percentage of the population protected, even the healthy young folk, to (mostly) contain the virus. Listening to them might be prudent.

So, when you can, please get vaccinated.

Confession: I live in the U.S. where the current President and his inner-circle appear to be making decisions based upon short-term public relations implications rather than long-term public safety implications. It is unclear to me how much they've meddled with the vaccine approval process. So, I want to get vaccinated, but I might wait a few weeks, just to be prudent.


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20 Nov 2020, 1:10 pm

ironpony wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
Tempus Fugit wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
Tempus Fugit wrote:
The problem with governments making it mandatory is, what steps would be taken to enforce it? Will people be forcibly inoculated against their will? Will they have everything taken from them if they don't capitulate? Will they be rounded up and placed in quarantine camps?



They would get arrested and go to jail or pay hefty fines. Maybe get their kids taken from them and get charged with child abuse. All for not getting vaccinated.


Is that the kind of world anyone wants to live in?


Honestly that wouldn't bother me. We already have child abuse and medical neglect against the law, how is not getting your children any required shots abuse or medical neglect?

Sadly there are lot of abuse you can do to your kids and get away with it. But however, schools here require kids to be vaccinated and ask for the medical records. I have no idea how anti vaccine nutters get around it. Maybe they forge the medical records for their kid, I don't know.


Oh okay, where do you live? I feel that even though I was harsh on saying adults should get it, and perhaps it should be mandatory, I don't think I believe in children having to get it mandatorily though, at least not at this stage.



Here in Oregon, every school my kids have gone too all require current records of vaccinations. Kids already get vaccinations in their toddler years so I don't see why this is any different.


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20 Nov 2020, 1:11 pm

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I have already been in contact with my health care provider and people at Pfizer to get the vaccine ASAP.

Pfizer vaccine is 2 shots every 3 months, so 8 shots per year.

You can never be sure if you are protected or not because they don't know how long it lasts.


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... they don't know how long it lasts.
Yet.

They don't know how long it lasts yet.


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Double Retired wrote:
Tempus Fugit wrote:
Really it seems to me that if the most vulnerable people are vaccinated, then it won't make that much difference if the 99% who won't need to be hospitalized aren't.
I think there is a reason they want to vaccinate everyone, even the healthy young folk.

1. Some might think that if you're healthy enough and young enough then you are unlikely to die from it...but since we're talking life or death I think getting a vaccine to get the best survival odds might be prudent.

2. Some might think that if you're healthy enough and young enough then you are unlikely to die from it...but I've seen some articles where the medical community has observed long-term adverse medical impacts even for survivors and I think getting a vaccine to try to avoid long-term adverse medical impacts might be prudent.

3. I am not young enough and healthy enough that the above apply. I definitely want to be vaccinated. But even though the vaccines are expected to be very effective, they're not expected to be 100% effective. Even if I get vaccinated I might still be vulnerable so I'd still really like to not meet anyone who is infected, even if they're healthy enough and young enough that they'll probably be okay--because I might be one of the unlucky ones for whom the vaccine was not effective. The experts say they need a large percentage of the population protected, even the healthy young folk, to (mostly) contain the virus. Listening to them might be prudent.

So, when you can, please get vaccinated.

Confession: I live in the U.S. where the current President and his inner-circle appear to be making decisions based upon short-term public relations implications rather than long-term public safety implications. It is unclear to me how much they've meddled with the vaccine approval process. So, I want to get vaccinated, but I might wait a few weeks, just to be prudent.


Nothing is 100%. If I was worried about that which doesn't guarantee 100% safety, I'm not sure I can think of a single thing that's completely safe. Even sleeping might be dangerous and life threatening if I have sleep apnea. If I was as terrified of daily life as it seems I'm supposed to be of this virus, I certainly would never leave the house, much less ever get into a car. That food looks good and I'm hungry, but what about the colesterol? Heart disease kills millions each year. And there's food poisoning. And choking to death. I'm so worried I need a benzodiazepine now. But wait, those are dangerous too.



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20 Nov 2020, 7:10 pm

League_Girl wrote:
ironpony wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
Tempus Fugit wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
Tempus Fugit wrote:
The problem with governments making it mandatory is, what steps would be taken to enforce it? Will people be forcibly inoculated against their will? Will they have everything taken from them if they don't capitulate? Will they be rounded up and placed in quarantine camps?



They would get arrested and go to jail or pay hefty fines. Maybe get their kids taken from them and get charged with child abuse. All for not getting vaccinated.


Is that the kind of world anyone wants to live in?


Honestly that wouldn't bother me. We already have child abuse and medical neglect against the law, how is not getting your children any required shots abuse or medical neglect?

Sadly there are lot of abuse you can do to your kids and get away with it. But however, schools here require kids to be vaccinated and ask for the medical records. I have no idea how anti vaccine nutters get around it. Maybe they forge the medical records for their kid, I don't know.


Oh okay, where do you live? I feel that even though I was harsh on saying adults should get it, and perhaps it should be mandatory, I don't think I believe in children having to get it mandatorily though, at least not at this stage.



Here in Oregon, every school my kids have gone too all require current records of vaccinations. Kids already get vaccinations in their toddler years so I don't see why this is any different.


Oh okay, but are the required by law to be though?



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20 Nov 2020, 7:12 pm

Double Retired wrote:
Tempus Fugit wrote:
Really it seems to me that if the most vulnerable people are vaccinated, then it won't make that much difference if the 99% who won't need to be hospitalized aren't.
I think there is a reason they want to vaccinate everyone, even the healthy young folk.

1. Some might think that if you're healthy enough and young enough then you are unlikely to die from it...but since we're talking life or death I think getting a vaccine to get the best survival odds might be prudent.

2. Some might think that if you're healthy enough and young enough then you are unlikely to die from it...but I've seen some articles where the medical community has observed long-term adverse medical impacts even for survivors and I think getting a vaccine to try to avoid long-term adverse medical impacts might be prudent.

3. I am not young enough and healthy enough that the above apply. I definitely want to be vaccinated. But even though the vaccines are expected to be very effective, they're not expected to be 100% effective. Even if I get vaccinated I might still be vulnerable so I'd still really like to not meet anyone who is infected, even if they're healthy enough and young enough that they'll probably be okay--because I might be one of the unlucky ones for whom the vaccine was not effective. The experts say they need a large percentage of the population protected, even the healthy young folk, to (mostly) contain the virus. Listening to them might be prudent.

So, when you can, please get vaccinated.

Confession: I live in the U.S. where the current President and his inner-circle appear to be making decisions based upon short-term public relations implications rather than long-term public safety implications. It is unclear to me how much they've meddled with the vaccine approval process. So, I want to get vaccinated, but I might wait a few weeks, just to be prudent.


But even if you are young enough and healthy enough to die from it, can young people still prevent the spread of it, if they refuse to take a vaccine?