The fact of the matter is that getting the vaccine won’t prevent you from getting the virus, but they say that you still should get the jab anyway because they say if you do catch the virus (after getting jabbed), you just won’t get as sick as you otherwise would have had you not gotten the vaccine.
How could they possibly know the above? Seriously, everybody reacts differently to the virus, with some people dying and most people having few or no symptoms (asymptomatic), and that’s without even getting a vaccine!
Some science gurus correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m thinking the only way their theory in my first paragraph could be true is if every person who caught the virus had it progress to a serious, or death case. With the latter, that’d be the “baseline”, and the vaccine would verifiably improve on those outcomes.
Personally, I’ve read too many horror stories about this experimental agent, and I have no intention on getting jabbed. And I’m 60 years old.
The vaccine makes it less likely you get Covid and lessens severity if you do get it.
I know that’s what “they” say but how can they prove that? Tens of millions of people got the virus before the vaccine even came out, and most of them only had a few mild symptoms, or even no symptoms at all. So logically thinking, the vaccine would have done nothing for the latter folks.
The closest thing they can get to proof is all of the double blind tests that they've run. They basically get a group of, say, 100 people. They give 50 of them the vaccine and give the other 50 a placebo. They then wait a couple of months and measure the infection rates among these groups. The infection rates have been lower in the vaccinated group every single time.
For young healthy people, the odds of it saving your life are very low bc it's unlikely that you would die from it anyway. But it's still going to help prevent you from getting it, which is still good (I definitely don't wanna get a bad flu, even if that's all it is) and it will help reduce the amount of Covid out there in our community, which will make things safer for the older and less healthy folks.