To Covid Vax or Not to Covid Vax

Firstly, I did not get Vaxed.
I wasn't brainwashed into not wanting it by Fox News or Qanon.
I feel it was pushed through too quickly. There hasn't been enough time, in my personal opinion, to know what the big picture will bring.

A few things bother me about the many arguments I have participated in and seen on here regarding this.
If a person wants to take measures to attempt to not get this virus than by all means get the Vax. Why do I have to get it for you to be safe from it??? This confuses me.

The last thing I saw mentioned the over crowded E-Rooms because of the un-vaxed getting the virus. Wouldn't this imply that we should also ban mass transit being as if a bus or train has a crash then more people than an E-Room can handle could need treatment??

It seems to be an easy choice either way you lean but proof dictates that it isn't that simple.
No one is arguing over the Flu Vax. Aren't people worried that if I don't get it then they may contract it even though they have taken that Vax??

Apparently I am missing a keystone in my tunnel because I am lost on this.

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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

I didn't get the vax. I am old enough to remember some of the medical disasters of the past. However I did keep an open mind and I watched as the media hyped the virus as being this mass killer. I couldn't see the mass death. I couldn't find huge numbers of people that even had it. I kind of compared it to the 1918 flu when two of my family members died from it. Covid obviously wasn't that deadly. I also remember the swine flu panic of 1976 where people rushed out to get vaxed and wound up severely injured. My sister a nurse and my friend and emergency room doctor advised against getting vaxed so I held off. My brother in law got the vax and we buried his body two days later. My friend got the vax and lost part of his bowel. My cousin's daughter got the vax and had several heart stoppages as she was being airlifted to the major trauma center. Months and years later I still don't know anyone who was so sick they needed hospitalization let alone ICU or death from covid. I eventually had it and it was a mild cold. So what was all the panic about again?

Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

@hippyjoe1955 Holy cow man. This covid has really run you through the ringer as far as the shot goes. Damn so sorry about the lose to your family.
I had covid and had to spend 8 glorious days in ICU. They wanted to keep me longer for some odd reason but I went home with Oxygen I never used and meds. All went well.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Dainbramadge Glad to hear you are on the good side of the green. Yes some people have difficulty with an illness others hardly feel. That is not reason to mandate and coerce people into taking an experimental vax that has not been thoroughly tested and/or the data from the tests being honestly reported and examined. I do fear for the vaxed as I am quite convinced that they have inflicted grievous bodily harm on themselves. Maybe not today but in the very near future their lives will be shortened. The wonder of the technology of the mRNA vax is a shiny bauble for many and they simply can't resist. However as time goes on it will be shown that being unvaxed was the wise thing to do.