I had thought about it a lot and decided that it was probably worth the risk, based on conversations with medical researchers who really understand how it works.
Then yesterday we had a workplace webinar where the president said that all staff are required to get the vaccine. Someone said how can you possibly require a vaccine that isn't even approved, but is only under emergency use authorization. The general counsel piped up and said that we think we are within our legal rights to require you to get it.
Someone else pointed out that in order to get this experimental vaccine we have to sign away our liability rights, so if the vaccine injures or kills us we have no recourse. And so isn't the company then liable for forcing you to take that risk? The webinar went silent for about 40 seconds and then the general counsel said that she would "circle back" on that question. So now they are worried...
Going to wait this one out for a bit.
People are gleefully lining up to get the vaccine. They think life will all of a sudden they can go back to pre-covid days and they can get rid of that damn mask and open the economy. Good luck with that one on the current trajectory.
Apparently, we are headed to a crossroads with different possible outcomes. It is very difficult to determine the truth. One side using reasonable data states we are headed to a mass casualty event or at least those who took the jab.
A successful vaccine has never been developed for any of the many strains of coronaviruses, due to the nature of the virus itself; and vaccinated people can have a higher chance of serious illness and death when later exposed to another strain of the virus, a phenomenon known as ‘virus interference.’ Enough history has already been written to think this is true. What we could see is a Hyper-immune response which would turn this into a mass casualty event like none other. We are talking millions of deaths. The problem for non-vaxxers is they will be shedding virus at a great rate. We have known since 2001 this was a possibility where almost all the test animals died from hyper-immune systems
Vaccine companies are already gearing up for booster shots. Variants will be to blame instead of the vaccine. Nobody is going to blame the vaccine period.
If that turns out not to be the case then people will be forced to take the vax and boosters either way. The only choice is to move to vax-free passport states. It will be difficult to conduct business with anyone other than like-minded people. Doable and probably a more enjoyable life.