That's certainly your choice. I was hesitant until the CEO of our local hospital wrote a letter to the editor begging people to get vaccinated and stay out of his hospital. We were at 128% capacity at one point, and 97% of COVID patients were unvaccinated, many way below the risk threshold of 65 years. We've lost middle aged people who did not have secondary health issues, one 5 years younger than me. We almost lost a local councilman who was anti-vax until he ended up in the hospital for several weeks. Now he's begging people to get vaccinated. So once that hit, yes, I and my two older kids were vaccinated, fully understanding this is just to blunt the edge if an infection. I'm fine with just getting sick and building natural immunity, but I need to not die in order to do that.
That 97% number can be very deceptive because if somebody had both doses of the vaccine but they hadn’t reached the two-week threshold after the second dose, they’re not counted as vaccinated. So I don’t put a lot of stock in those numbers. Plus they don’t differentiate between which unvaccinated people had previous infections. I find the fact they leave that out to be a red flag and I find it deceptive. They also never mention if the unvaccinated have underlying conditions. Almost everyone time there American national media Shows an unvaccinated person in the hospital bed (who wishes they had the vaccine), they’re almost always morbidly obese. If you’re not obese you’re not really at risk of dying from Covid unless you’re old. I see absolutely no reason to get these vaccines, even if I didn’t have natural immunity. Partly because there are generic antivirals that I feel would work better. So obviously I don’t trust the numbers, but I’m happy that you feel safe now and got to get the vaccine that you wanted. I had covid and it was like a mild common cold where I lost my smell. My 90 year old aunt survived COVID. My brothers girlfriend in her late 30s suffers from “long covid”. She was vaccinated after having covid and now suffers from this mysterious fatigue illness that doctors are calling “long covid”. One of my aunts in her 50s got diagnosed with a heart condition a couple on months after the vaccine. Sure, maybe both are coincidences, but when I combine it with the fact they deceptively leave out important data “like prior infection” and the fact the media and corporate pharmacies are falling over themselves to prevent people from receiving antivirals, and you add the fact that countries are taking the Moderno version off the market, I think it’s wise to let this play out more before getting vaccinated. Plus, every country and area with high vax rates seems to be experiencing a worst year than last. Here in America, hospitable get paid me if a patient dies from covid, so I don’t always trust when they say someone died from covid, at least here in America. It’s long been known how corrupt our healthcare system is here in America, especially the bureaucracies in corporate hospitals. So when I see Pfizer tweet out that there are “teaming up” with the Daily Beast, I get suspicious. There’s no chance I’ll get it. In fact, I’ll leave the country before I get it, I’d rather be homeless then get this vaccine until there’s long term data.
Plus, like I explained above, the vaccines create the variants. The vaccines only last about six months so you’re going to perpetually need to get boosters every six months until they come up with a better technology.
I feel like it’s very shortsighted to trade off six months of immunity for deadly variants. I hope I’m wrong though, I’ll be thrilled if you’re all right tbh. I’m happy that you were free to make the best decision for your family. For my family, its no too vaccines.
PS. My dad also got the second moderna vaccine and then couldn’t walk a single city block without getting winded. Unfortunately he’s a loyal corporate media consumer and he doesn’t think the vaccine caused it, he thinks it’s his weight that caused him to be winded. I beg to differ, he was about the same weight the year before and he could walk nine holes of golf. You don’t lose that much wind in one year, but hey maybe I’m wrong
. I’m sure his company is transparent and didn’t make him sign an NDA
