weepingangel
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I should have clarified, though I thought it would be understood that I had all my childhood vaccines. As an adult who can choose, I never chose to get vaccinated for any reason.
Going for dose #2 of Moderna today! Whoop!
Even after being fully vaccinated, many still wrestle with a fear of catching Covid (nbcnews.com)
“I don’t want to be sitting in a movie theater with ‘patient zero’ of a variant that bucks the vaccine.”
Since the start of the pandemic, Kit Breshears has been terrified of catching the coronavirus. Getting vaccinated did not magically change that.
For the past 13 months, Breshears, 44, of Buffalo, Minnesota, has not stepped foot inside a store or restaurant, not even to pick up a takeout meal. Any visits with family and friends have been over Zoom.
When he received his second Covid-19 shot earlier this month, he felt relief, he said — but with the pandemic still ongoing, he has found it impossible to turn off his anxiety.
“My fear is that enough people are not going to get vaccinated, or they’re not going to get vaccinated in a timely fashion, and we end up getting a horrible variant that puts us right back to where we are,” Breshears, a communications director at a local university, said...
Thanks for sharing this article. I can understand how some might have some fears and doubts. This has been a horrific year and many more continue to get sick and die as I type.
I wondered how Mr Pirate and I would feel about it all post vaccinations. Being very scientific and “odds” minded, we looked at the numbers. We follow the rules, but we no longer fear Covid for ourselves any more than many of the other things that can happen to us.
That said I totally understand the reluctance and fear. This vaccine is not 100 percent and there is a risk of Covid.
Thanks - I do feel giddy! The sore arm is starting and I'm prepared for flu-like symptoms, though I hope I don't get them of course.Great: You will feel so happy knowing you are fully protected- hopefully your side effects will be minimal
It's behind a paywall, but having read similar stories, it seems like they are in a tough spot. People who are resistant to getting the vaccine read that and say "if I need to keep wearing a mask, then the vaccine doesn't really work, so why bother." I suspect the only way to reach everyone is with some sort of vaccine passport required to get into bars, concerts, casinos, etc. And that seems unlikely to happen.
I'm so glad we have this thread, because so many of you have such interesting and informative things to add.
Personally I've never been afraid of vaccines. If anyone else here is my age or more, (I'm 63), then we can all look at our big round smallpox scar on our upper arm and be grateful that smallpox was eradicated. I don't remember getting that shot, but I do remember as a young girl I drank some pink concoction which turned out to be the Sabin polio vaccine. Smallpox is gone and polio is much less common in America. None of us spent our childhood in an iron lung. Mump, measles, rubella etc....vaccines. This is another vaccine. It is here to save the day.
As @dmac55 said, it is Astra-Zeneca, not J&J, which has components from chimps. Astra-Zeneca is not approved here in America.
As @ilovewings said, the mRNA technology has been worked on for a decade by scientists toiling away in obscurity. It was brought to the forefront as Covid ravaged the world. It's another medical advance and only seems "rushed" because the general public was unaware of the work that had been going on, and also because so many scientists around the globe focused their work on a singular disease at the same time. The notion that schools would forbid teachers who are vaccinated to come to school is medieval thinking.
As @MrX mentioned that it is unlikely we would have a vaccine passport, we do have one in NY, called the Excelsior Pass. There are plenty of people who don't want it as they are afraid of tracking, and I'm a bit squeamish about that as well, but it's voluntary.
So, IMO MOO JMO---@anonymiss, you mentioned people you know who have had bad short term effects. I only wish that my friends who died, drowned lungs gasping on ventilators, no family allowed, no funeral after, could have suffered a day or two of fever, chills, headache, muscle ache and then arisen from a sickbed instead of a deathbed.
I imagine all the plagues in history, The Black Death, Plague of Justinian, all of them. Hundreds of millions dead when the world population was much lower. They didn't know about germs, bacteria, and fleas and unwashed hands. When the occasional doctor, like Lister, came to understand these things they were treated like crackpots. Dr. Snow in London actually had to have a pump handle broken because people kept dying of cholera from filthy water. We are educated people now. No one wants to be the literal one in a million who dies from J&J but neither do we want to be the one who dies in a car accident on the way to get it, which is far more likely. If ancient people, dying of bacterial infections, could have understood that hygiene would have saved them, they may have shunned it anyway. Hygiene was difficult to achieve without running water in a home. We owe a debt to those who came before us. If Fleming hadn't accidentally left the cover off a Petri dish, maybe we wouldn't have antibiotics.
My grandfather died of tuberculosis when my father was three. He's 88 now and still feels the pain of growing up with no father. if only there had been the TB tine back then.
I believe future generations will look back on mRNA as another miracle step in public health.
Finally, I haven't changed my ways much. I'm not ready, especially to eat indoors or go on a plane. But I feel MUCH safer.