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Yeah this one has perticularly irked me we have data on the vaccines dating back almost as far as data on COVID. There is less overall cases and less overall t
by faeriechangling 5y ago
Yeah this one has perticularly irked me we have data on the vaccines dating back almost as far as data on COVID. There is less overall cases and less overall time so there are more unknowns but there isn't also the same phenomenon we see of "COVID long haulers" amongst vaccine recipients. So far we have MORE evidence of spooky but speculative long term effects for COVID itself.
The only argument that has made sense to me is the Freerider argument, or "both COVID and the vaccine have unknown effects so I will try to avoid both" because COVID cases are currently so low particularly when bolstered with "I'm open to taking the vaccine especially if cases go up but want to delay for more data for now". I'm sceptical it's going to be possible for anybody but a marginal minority to be a Freerider who doesn't vaccinate/distance/wear PPE long term because R0=5.7 in Wuhan during the initial outbreak so it seems like it takes mass scale efforts to reduce transmission no matter how one goes about it.