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3 pointsmelenaos5y ago22 comments

I am about to get vaccinated, i have an appointment next week. I am Pro-vaccines but i am unsure about this specific vaccine since it's not tested in years. A vaccine it considered safe of it's been used for over a decade and now this is developed and released within a year. If i get the covid i might get permanent side effects but with the vaccine nobody knows what it will bring to us in the next years. Have you been vaccinated or are you planning to?

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h2odragon5y ago· 5 in thread

I'm not getting the vaccine, but our family had COVID early and it's not likely to help us anyway. My wife has already had a couple of incidents where she's been asked about vaccination and they had no provision for "infected and recovered", just vaccinated or not.

I expect the worst side effects are already apparent; and the ones that will trouble the most people for the longest are bureaucratic bullshit rules adopted in haste and never reviewed.

smt885y ago

"Infected and recovered" antibody levels are often lower than vaccinated, and natural immunity may dissipate faster as well.

You should get vaccinated as long as you don't know your antibody levels.

h2odragon5y ago

There's debate about that; I have read the opposite (natural recovery results in longer immunity) recently as well. In the face of question, there, I tend to trust the longer history of the immune system over the vaccine.

dragonwriter5y ago

Also, because vaccines (at least the mRNA ones) target highly conserved elements of the spike protein, they are likely to be more effective against other variants than natural immunity (which tends to target multiple different, but not necessarily highly-conserved, elements of the particular strain that you got.)

melenaosOP5y ago

I have read that the Pfiser vaccine must be repeated after 6 months. And the other Covid viruses provide immunity for 2 years.

syops5y ago

One can imagine a pandemic severe enough where requiring everyone to get vaccinated is obviously and overwhelmingly in the public’s best interest. And that this best interest of the public overrides any considerations of a purported right to not be vaccinated. There are times where the overall public safety considerations overwhelms individual objections.

reacharavindh5y ago· 2 in thread

The risk argument of getting COVID(and its short and long term side effects) vs vaccine(and its side effects) should be simple enough. The vaccine is being used by several million people in the world. If it had any super weird short term side effects, you would have known about it by now. If you are concerned about the unknown long term side effects or the vaccine - have you thought about the unknown long term side effects of catching COVID?

Nett win for vaccines don't you think?

Also, you get to break the chain of the pandemic and save a few lives along the way..

ohiovr5y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/modernavaccine/

melenaosOP5y ago

The history tell us that the vaccines might cause more severe trouble than you might think.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....

Also, I might break the chain of the pandemic better by catching the real virus than using the vaccine.

At the start of the pandemic, we had to be careful because a portion of the population are for fragile. We had to watch until we find the vaccine and they are safe.

Now that they are safe, they are vaccinated, why do we have to continue be careful? This way the virus won't leave after 2 years that most viruses of this kind do.

gostsamo5y ago· 2 in thread

I got vaccinated few weeks ago. So far no green skin, no strong brain preferences, no magnetism or better phone reception. If you are reasonably young and healthy you should not be afraid from both the virus or the vaccine, but by vaccinating, you are doing a social service to protect everybody else.

melenaosOP5y ago

If you were young and fertile girl and got vaccinated by HPV vaccination, then you might not be fertile anymore. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23902317/

Not only we are not talking HPV, but three subjects is a bit an overkill in terms of statistics.

jrnichols5y ago· 1 in thread

Yes. I work in healthcare and was actually among the first group in the state of California to get the Pfizer series. I have records showing my first was back in December of 2020. A huge reason for getting vaccinated as soon as I could was to be part of the early test data, and also because I believed that this was our doorway to things being back to normal. Unfortunately it seems that for so many, now the goalposts have moved to "but what about the children?" despite the numbers for them being really, really low.

And now I am happily awaiting June 15th, 2021 at 12:01am when the California mandates finally expire.

Zero side effects.

melenaosOP5y ago

I wouldn't vaccinate my children not because i would be afraid of the sort term side effects, but for the long term side effects that nobody knows now.

And why to vaccinate the children since they don't seem to pass it rought, the Convid doesn't leave them scars and they grow better immune by passing the virus instead of the vaccine.

I am 40 so i kinda afraid to pass the real virus, this is why i am thinking of vaccination.

marcodiego5y ago· 1 in thread

> Have you been vaccinated or are you planning to?

Typical answer from someone who is somewhat well-versed in logic: yes.

melenaosOP5y ago

Then Person = HealthRisk.Low

I’ve had my first dose of the vaccine, got the second dose booked in for next month.

Long COVID is definitely more of a worry for me than any vaccine side effects.

rurban5y ago

I volunteered for AZ two months ago, otherwise I would have needed for to wait a couple more months to get a mRNA shot. With reserves of Ivermectin I feel very safe.

URfejk5y ago

No and no.

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