Look my man, You are not going to convince me, and I’m not going to convince you.
You are welcome to make whatever decision you want to make, but be clear about the information or reasoning as to why you are making that decision. If you're scared to take the vaccine and its irrational, then accept that. If you're scared to take the vaccine and its rational, then that's fine too, but make sure you know the difference between the two.
Its a fact the vaccine is only a few months old. Its a HARD FACT. Its a FACT that vaccines trails runs between 5 to 10 years.
Firstly, there is no
"the" vaccine. There are multiple vaccines, with all being developed using the old method (weakened viruses) or newer mRNA technology. Edit. But yes, because most vaccines aren't trying to be developed to deal with a respiratory virus that spreads as quickly as COVID-19 does, we are dealing with vaccines that are "a few months old". Even TB, the closest equivalent, is relatively difficult to catch compared to COVID, hence the long trials for its vaccine.
The only logical conclusion is to wait, at least a year to see if there are long term side effect. Its not selfish of me to think like this. Its logical. Its rather selfish to try and manipulate people into taking the few months old vax because you are scared.
It is illogical. Either you wait 5-10 years (as you admitted, this is how long it takes for most trials to complete, and also the most reasonable amount of time that will reveal potential long-term effects), or you may as well take it now. Waiting 6-12 months to get the vaccine isn't suddenly going to reveal anything we don't already know.
Part of your argument is to hold off because one friend go sick. One. Out of all the people you know personally who have gotten a vaccine, not to mention the literal millions of people across the world, one person that you know had a bad reaction, so you're going to avoid the vaccine. You cannot deny that this is, again,
illogical.
And I honestly don’t know why people are scared who took the vax, By your own logic if you take the vax, you are less likely to become seriously ill (Whats those numbers again?). Unless there is a CURE, the virus will always remain. Even if all the people has received the vax, the virus is not magically going to disappear. Its going to be here, forever. so what's the difference if there are people who wont take the vax?, Its going to remain here, Like the normal cold or Flu, vaxed or not.
I am not scared of the COVID vaccine and am aware that studies are still on-going. I am also fully aware COVID-19 is not going away and it will stay around (enough doctors have discussed how herd immunity is not going to make this virus go away). But, I put my faith and trust in medical experts who know more than me on this subject and defer to them, unlike many of the armchair analysts who
won't take the vaccine because
they think they know better.
If you want to ask me how I feel, this is how I feel:
I am is frustrated.
People like to pretend they are making rational decisions to avoid the vaccine. COVID is just the cold or flu (it's not, last time I checked neither of these things screwed up my sense of taste for weeks or months, gave me long-term brain fog or random blood clots). I'm young I'll be fine (young, healthy people have randomly died from the virus). I'll wait a year (what difference is a year going to make?).
People should just admit "I don't understand this thing and it scares me so I'm not going to take it." Even when I tell people, fine, don't take any of the mRNA vaccines because they are new – you have the option to get vaccines based on the methods we've been using for decades (see J&J, which we're going to be receiving 31 million doses of). But even when you give them a safer option made with well established methods, they still make some excuse EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE TAKEN VACCINES USING THE SAME PROCESSES FOR DECADES.
These same people will trust their doctors to put anything else in them, even though they have no ****ING idea what their doctor is doing, but mention the word VACCINE and suddenly it's like their doctor pulled out a gun and tried to shoot them.
They then rely on conspiracy theory sites, Facebook, and very fringe opinions by "experts" who didn't even test their ideas before making them public, but put their theories out their because they, more than likely, want the attention more than anything else (any real expert worth their salt would bring evidence to the table before making any claims. See Dr. Pierre Kory, which is why I am not anti-ivermectin, since it seems to have had a positive effect for some people, with next to no downsides, even though the one study was shown to be a sham).
So yes, you are free to "agree to disagree". You are free to do as you please. Just don't pretend that you actually have any actual knowledge on the subject that actually supports your decision (something a lot of anti-vaxxers/vaccine hesitant people are claiming) – like most people here,
none of us actually have any medical knowledge to be making anything near an informed decision without seeking the advice of medical experts.
And guess what the overwhelming majority of medical experts are saying?
The vaccine is safe for the overwhelming majority. Most people will experience mild side effects, or, more correctly, a mild reaction to the vaccine. The chances of there being any long-term side effects are close to zero.