Will you take a Coronavirus vaccine if it becomes available ?

@ArishMell After 83 years of a flu vaccine,we still have the flu.

@MrBrownstone vaccines don't eradicate an illness (although we did manage that smallpox) they reduce the incidence of it in the population. Its about reducing the risk of serious illness or death but it does not eliminate it.

But it is like asking why do you wear a seat belt in a car? It does not reduce the risk of you being in a car crash but it reduces the risk of death and serious injury.

@SW-User Seat belts have laws,vaccines don’t

@MrBrownstone

First question then why pass a law forcing people to wear a seat belt? 🤔

@SW-User To make money

@ArishMell My reason to say no is because society today is all about making money. If they can invent something, and make people believe it works, then they make money, but if people believe it doesn't work then they make less money, so of course whoever comes out with a vaccine will spew whatever they need to make people believe it works. For all you know, it could be very bad for you, cause cancer, or some other disease, but that may not show for many years. We are dealing with scientists with a fixed goal, making money, even THEY do not know all the repercussions. It will go something like this.. Amazing cure for Covid19, works in 99% of cases, live a long healthy life with <product name>. Then in tiny print at the bottom, barely legible. "WARNING: may cause drowsiness, or internal or external bleeding, you may lose the ability to walk and talk and parts of your body may become permanently numb, and you may have trouble breathing and there is a possibility of death or deformation".

@MrBrownstone 🤔
In the UK the opposite is probably the reason ie to save money.
Having the NHS it is the state that pick up the cost of treatment of car crashes so forcing the wearing of seat belts is a cost saving measure. The same vaccines are you don't need many long ICU stays for a wide ranging vaccine policy to make sense.

My feeling personally is that vaccines should be compulsory or if you refuse you have to pick up all your health costs and are banned from public gatherings. But I'm told by many that view is too draconian.

@SW-User Do smokers have to cover their health care costs?

@MrBrownstone no but there's an argument for that. It isn't as though the link to cancer and COPD hasn't been clearly established for a generation. Anyone of my age or lower started smoking with full knowledge of the risk.

@SW-User In the US smoking is linked to cancer.

@MrBrownstone giving up smoking is the single most healthy thing any smoker can do.

@SW-User And are smokers telling me how I should be healthy by wearing a mask?

@MrBrownstone Not just in the US.

That link between smoking and lung-cancer has been recognised for decades and world-wide. Whether people go by it is another matter, perhaps influenced by their own countries' societies or their own social circles.

@ArishMell So if people actively do something that causes cancer,don’t complain to me about my activities in life.

@MrBrownstone Well, I am not sure how to take that, but I tend to agree that people who smoke should not criticise others for doing so.

(I don't smoke, and I remember my Dad saying he wished he not started smoking, but most of his generation in their younger years had thought smoking was an everyday, normal and harmless, even helpful, habit. The link with cancer had not yet been proven, possibly not known, in the 1940s-50s.)