She's spent the last two days saying things like: "I don't trust my government but I trust science." and "I really really don't want to get it." and "I want to be able to travel to Europe again, so I'm willing to get it for that."
Even with all her anxiety and mistrust, she still got it. Only a few hours after, she said she didn't feel good, and didn't think it was just in her head.
People are so brainwashed, they're going against their own common sense and survival instincts.
UPDATE: She said her brain was foggy all day yesterday, and she doesn't really remember the days events. She said it made her and her husband who also took it very very tired. And the injection site was very painful also.
The vaccines (all of them) absolutely do reduce the incidence of symptomatic illness, and reduce the incidence of hospitalization or death to near zero. And yes, it does plenty to reduce the spread. No vaccine has ever been 100% effective against acquiring or spreading a disease, or 100% free of side effects.
I do not want to get COVID-19. While the incidence of death or critical illness is very low even without vaccination, the risk of mild or moderate symptomatic illness remains high in densely populated areas. And many people who recover from the active infection quickly, are left with long-term and possibly permanent side effects. It's not rational to look at this in terms of "if there's only a remote chance it will kill me, then there's no reason to worry about getting the disease". There's a guy in my town who had a "mild" case almost a year ago. He still can't taste anything except super-hot chili peppers like jalapenos, and he can barely even taste those. I'm not sure about how his sense of smell has recovered at this point (it was also totally gone), and that can be dangerous in addition to just lowering quality of life.
Do you understand the difference between a vaccine and mRNA therapy?
Do you realize which one J & J is [was?], and which the other two are?
Do you realize that if you knew what a vaccine is, what it does, and had an elementary notion of how vaccines work, it would be impossible to say the stupid shit you just said?
The mRNA is not a "therapy"; it's just a different vaccine vector. J&J and AstraZeneca use adenovirus vectors, and both of those vaccines have had a small but significant incidence of serious clotting complications, almost certainly related to an immune reaction to the combination of the adenovirus vectors and COVID-19 antigens. The Moderna (mRNA-vectored) vaccine has had a high incidence of mild skin reactions, along with a very few extremely serious skin reactions. That profile is not different from skin reactions associated with some very common drugs, but given the availability and comparable effectiveness of the Pfizer (also mRNA-vectored) alternative, I prefer to go with Pfizer.
I didn't hack into your bank account and steal all your money.
I was just using a "different income vector."