Poll: how many regret taking the vaccine

@samueltyler2 A neighbor who was vaxxed had a heart attack. Coincidental and unconnected? Maybe. Maybe not.

@theAlchemist I understand your concern, but tens of millions of people have received the vaccine, there have been many people who have suffered from all sorts of medical and other phenomena after they received the vaccine. The temporal relationships do not prove causality. This vaccine has been studied in far greater depth than any other vaccine. There are some side effects, of course, but when the side effects are considered in relationship to the effects of the natural viral infection, most scientists agree that the vaccine prevents serious infection and is safer than the infection.

@samueltyler2 I didn't get the vaxx. I state why I refused it in my post elsewhere on this thread. I feel that the question of whether or not to get the vaxx is up to the individual.

@samueltyler2 but i remembered it wasn't studied for that long before they tested it on humans. They had no idea of the long term impact on humans

@smileylovesgaming that is really not true either. The technology behind the mRNA vaccine has been studied for nearly 30 years. The actual research on the final vaccine was conducted on a far larger number of research subjects than almost every other new medication ever introduced. It had to, because it was to be administered to well people, and the results were evaluated by a larger monitoring group than other research protocols.

@smileylovesgaming Yep, they should have waited until 30,000,000 people died from the virus before releasing the vaccine.

@Diotrephes well look at joe Biden he has both vaccine shots and the booster shot and he got the virus twice in less than a month. Clearly it doesn't prevent just helps with symptoms. Even after all most 3 year's this virus will still be here. What are u going to do get a shot every year for the rest of your life for this virus. Clearly this vaccine wasn't properly tested.

@smileylovesgaming The knowledge of this virus is still growing. There are some viruses that do need annual vaccinations, e.g. influenza, and covid may take on that model.

I totally disagree with your statement that it was inadequately tested, that is rubbish. As to why the virus persists, we have not had enough people vaccinated or having the natural disease to cause any sort of community immunity, and each infection and replication of the virus allows new mutants to appear, a mutation may develop a resistance to any antibody, either from a vaccine or the natural disease. It does appear that the current vaccines are more efficacious towards preventing serious disease, and that is important.

There is work on newer vaccines that may be more effective at preventing primary disease, they have been more difficult to develop. If you follow the average daily rates of infection and deaths, based on a sliding weekly average, the daily infections and deaths have been slowly creeping up again. We are at almost 500 daily US deaths! This is usually slow season for respiratory viral illnesses, I fear for what will happen in the fall.

We have limited ways to prevent the illness, vaccination, masking and social distancing is really all we have at this time.

@smileylovesgaming I've had four shots already and will get additional ones in the future as long as they are available. There are thousands of things that might kill me but hopefully it won't be covid.

Will you get a monkeypox (orthopox) shot?

@Diotrephes no I won't

@smileylovesgaming
Are you saying that you have never been vaccinated against smallpox? Monkeypox is in the same family. Thousands of people are screaming that they want the monkeypox vaccine right now. The monkeypox doesn't kill very many people so if you want to be completely miserable for a couple of months I suppose you don't have to get vaccinated.

Will you hold your position when the next virus erupts and there's a vaccine that could save you?