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Almost all the people I knew who died, passed away before the vaccine was available. I knew one who was vaccinated who died. For me, this was a no-brainer. I had absolutely no reaction to all four shots I received. In fact, no one in my family had a bad reaction. I'll be first in line when the new vaccine comes out in the fall.
There were no vaccines when I was born.I remember getting a polio vax in the early 50's me and my brother walked to the Docs house to get it. All the other childhood sickness's we just got and developed natural immunity thats the truth.
I haven't read the whole thread but I will, as I am truly curious as to why anyone would actually regret getting the vaccine. I'm acquainted with all the vaccine-denier rhetoric, and I understand taking a cautious approach to new protocols or those for children. I was truly skeptical when the vaccine came out so quickly in 2020.
But after a few months I happily got the shot when I became eligible because the public health benefits were so undeniable. When a pandemic rages the correct and proper approach is always to vaccinate the public as soon as possible. Why should this be any different? And it's crystal clear now that untold millions of lives have been saved. I'm happily vaxxed and boosted and will follow future guidelines.
(I lost one friend and one family member to Covid before the vaccine was available. Since the vaccines have been widely used I have not had any personal knowledge of anyone who even got ill enough to be hospitalized. Anecdotal to be sure, but plenty to inform my own approach.)
I haven't read the whole thread but I will, as I am truly curious as to why anyone would actually regret getting the vaccine. I'm acquainted with all the vaccine-denier rhetoric, and I understand taking a cautious approach to new protocols or those for children. I was truly skeptical when the vaccine came out so quickly in 2020.
But after a few months I happily got the shot when I became eligible because the public health benefits were so undeniable. When a pandemic rages the correct and proper approach is always to vaccinate the public as soon as possible. Why should this be any different? And it's crystal clear now that untold millions of lives have been saved. I'm happily vaxxed and boosted and will follow future guidelines.
(I lost one friend and one family member to Covid before the vaccine was available. Since the vaccines have been widely used I have not had any personal knowledge of anyone who even got ill enough to be hospitalized. Anecdotal to be sure, but plenty to inform my own approach.)
We're working with different sets of facts, apparently.
All-cause deaths are up since the mass vaccination campaign. Actually way up, considering that they should be way down given the burst of very old and otherwise susceptible people that died from the first wave of Covid.
This is despite a mix of Covid variants that is undeniably more mild (it ain't the vaccine that gets credit for that). I haven't heard even secondhand of anyone going to the hospital for Covid in almost a year. Despite the fact that I can't go a week anymore without someone telling me they have Covid (virtually all of them vaccinated).
Hospitalizations peaked at a higher level in the winter in the U.S. and Canada after mass vaccination than in the winter before, when virtually no one was vaccinated. So much for "saving the hospitals."
I don't see the public health benefits as "undeniable," I see them as very deniable. I'd argue they're nonexistent, and when you factor in the rancorous, poisonous, flagrantly un-American sparring over who is and isn't vaccinated and whether they should be denied access in certain situations, I'd argue the vaccines are actually a net negative.
Never got the fake doctor fauci wuflu experimental gene therapy inoculations and I never will.
I didn't know Fauci himself developed the vaccine. I learn so many new things every day on these forums.
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