Healthcare is both an individual and community focused field. For some things there needs to be much more focus on the others. For other things there needs to be a bigger focus on community. Unfortunately certain disease spreads from person to person which makes that a community problem. When you participate in society, you either agree to certain rules (vaccines for MMR, polio, etc to go to public schools or as an agreement for certain jobs) or you make the decision to live a life without those societal niceties and some extra hurdles to jump over.
Healthcare in this country is absolutely atrocious and health literacy is even worse. Healthy diet, exercise, vitamins, etc are all excellent and all your body really needs to fight something off, as a normal healthy individual. However, there are many people who are not able to do that or are immunocompromised and unable to do that naturally which is why vaccines are a thing and are important and (other than the covid vaccine) have very little to no real major risk.
Yes some vaccines are fine, but far too many are being recommended now, IMHO. We never used public schools, but my kids either got the boosters they needed for college or will get them.
How someone gets immunocompromised is a series of books!
Someone can be immunocompromised for a whole slew of reasons, from not playing in nature enough (current research suggests this is why allergic and autoimmune diseases have been exploding in recent years), cancer treatments, medications or other illness, age, etc.
Like I said, I personally don't want the covid vaccine because 1) it has only been a few months and I'd like to see more long term testing which leads me to 2) I'm young and healthy and personally am classifying this into the flu vaccine group in terms of necessity for me. I'm young and healthy and take relatively good care of myself. Even in the event that I do get either influenza or covid, I'll probably be fine.
However, if my hospitals start requiring it, it's not a big enough deal to me that I would give up my job and be outraged over all this because the vaccine itself is not that big of a deal.
I 110% agree with this, to a certain degree.
Healthcare is both an individual and community focused field. For some things there needs to be much more focus on the others. For other things there needs to be a bigger focus on community. Unfortunately certain disease spreads from person to person which makes that a community problem. When you participate in society, you either agree to certain rules (vaccines for MMR, polio, etc to go to public schools or as an agreement for certain jobs) or you make the decision to live a life without those societal niceties and some extra hurdles to jump over.
Healthcare in this country is absolutely atrocious and health literacy is even worse. Healthy diet, exercise, vitamins, etc are all excellent and all your body really needs to fight something off, as a normal healthy individual. However, there are many people who are not able to do that or are immunocompromised and unable to do that naturally which is why vaccines are a thing and are important and (other than the covid vaccine) have very little to no real major risk.
Yes some vaccines are fine, but far too many are being recommended now, IMHO. We never used public schools, but my kids either got the boosters they needed for college or will get them.
How someone gets immunocompromised is a series of books!
Someone can be immunocompromised for a whole slew of reasons, from not playing in nature enough (current research suggests this is why allergic and autoimmune diseases have been exploding in recent years), cancer treatments, medications or other illness, age, etc.
Like I said, I personally don't want the covid vaccine because 1) it has only been a few months and I'd like to see more long term testing which leads me to 2) I'm young and healthy and personally am classifying this into the flu vaccine group in terms of necessity for me. I'm young and healthy and take relatively good care of myself. Even in the event that I do get either influenza or covid, I'll probably be fine.
However, if my hospitals start requiring it, it's not a big enough deal to me that I would give up my job and be outraged over all this because the vaccine itself is not that big of a deal.