Poll: how many regret taking the vaccine

@being I am happy that you did so well. You are young and have no co-morbidities, and the acute illness would less likely cause you serious problems. I agree, prevention is important, we have only 3 approaches to prevention though, and that includes universal immunization, something that is not being achieved because of the anti-vaxxers that both refuse the shot and spread false information about the science. We do not know, yet, what or if, any long term problems may become obvious years from now. That happened after the pandemic of 1918, it took 20 years to discover some of the latent problems. I pray that won't happen with covid.

@samueltyler2 I know of people a lot older than myself who follow a natural way of living. I know the feeling of wanting the whole world to work as one, but I don't agree to the suggested direction.. monoculture isn't beneficial in any living ecosystem anyways, so I am going to support my opinion actively.
I would suggest as prevention to stop consuming processed foods and materials, embrace a simpler and more natural way of life, invest time in nature and arts and work on bettering ourselves and communities. This might sound irrelevant to a crisis situation, but to me that's more relevant than anything. Had we worked on those things since 2019, we would have mostly healed our world, in my humble opinion.

@being Try that with

HIV/AIDS
anthrax
ebola
polio
shingles

Did you get a vaccination against measles, mumps?

Eating better, exercising, etc.--good tips. But even people your age have contracted and DIED from CoViD. I haven't seen that we have a knowledge of which genetic markers can predict this, yet, so you may or may not be im that group.

More importantly, the "long CoViD" is a REAL conundrum. It has a variety of presentations and it seems doggedly persistent.

Your approach is *one* leg of the stool. Why weaken yourself *and OTHERS* by turning away from additional legs?

@SomeMichGuy I can agree that you care and that all the things you say come from a place of deep caring and I won't argue that western medicine works.
But I want the freedom to act as I judge that is suitable for me. I might have my own reasons. If I want to retrieve in nature and die, I want that to be my choice and not one of a government or a company.
I totally get it, how I might seem like anarchy against the system in your eyes but that's not my intention, I have the least mood for fight. It's a total difference of pov. It's not "good tips"... it's a whole lifelong effort to make it right..

@being Yes, if your actions are what you want, but you don't endanger another, than i agree with you. But, we all have to accept the fact that we give up some personal freedoms to enhance the health and welfare of others. We stop at traffic lights, we support public education, clean water, and most people do become immunized to various infectious diseases, many of which you may not have had any experience with, and which I saw kill children and adults and now are rarely seen because of immunizations.

Yes, some people manage to live their life without getting any of the deadly infectious diseases, because so many of the general public has been immunized that the diseases are less common. A man just developed polio in NY because he was not immunized, there were outbreaks of measles in California when unimmunized people were exposed to cases of measles. The basis of the mRNA vaccine has been studied since the 1990s, or even before that, it didn't start in 2019 or later.

I am not trying to "fight" with you, I am simply trying to present the actual facts to you.

@being well said and very strange many ppl will think this outlook is "extreme"