I’m getting my vaccine on Tuesday and I’m excited but nervous at the same time

@theblueman77 Guess it's better risking contracting a virus (it's only a matter of time, you can't avoid it forever, just like rolling dices over and over and hoping they won't ever give you 6-6) whose long term side effects are also unknown?

@Elessar personally I'm happy to take the risk, have a look at the background of the vaccine companies 🤔

@theblueman77 Well, have a look on those who are already experiencing long term complications post-covid.

And unless you expect, I dunno, your car dealer to come up with drugs and vaccines at some point you'll have to trust any of those companies. Will you, similarly, decide to die of sepsis because you don't trust any manufacturer of antibiotics if you develop a bacterial infection at any point of your life?

@Elessar antibiotics have had time to develop, these 5 minute vaccines are not to trusted in my opinion, obviously we have very different opinions on this and i did expect someone to say similar to what you have, what will be will be

@theblueman77 I don't think that back in the days when they discovered penicillin was capable of treating bacterial infections in animals they waited for 10+ years of repeated trials and bureaucracy prior starting using it on people tbh. Also, the time trials take to complete depends mostly on how quickly people in the placebo group experience complications, and amid a pandemic that'll be a lot shorter than, I dunno, in a trial about treatments for some form of cancer or some rare disease.

I respect your opinion and I'm not expecting to change your mind on the subject, just pointing out that from a scientific and even from a percentages of risk perspective you're far more likely to experience complications from covid (or post-covid) than from any hypothetical unknown side effects of the current vaccines.

@theblueman77 so far as I know people who are vaccinated have milder courses of COVID19 if they do contract it despite vaccination (no vaccine is 100%). It's kind of like the flu vaccine in that if you catch another variant at least your system is already acquainted against similar viruses. One of the things that makes COVID19 so deadly is that it is a NOVEL virus - one that "looks" different from any virus our immune systems are familiar with already.