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Can irrational fears be addressed? There is sufficient information on the 'Net to prove/disprove anything you would like re: vaccination and vaccines. Are you

Can irrational fears be addressed? There is sufficient information on the 'Net to prove/disprove anything you would like re: vaccination and vaccines. Are you capable of evaluating which is (more) true? I would think it obvious that the risk from vaccination is much less than the risk from Covid, but a fully-vaccinated person would say that, wouldn't they... I would also think that people's willingness to help others should drive them towards vaccination (as it's coupled with self-preservation). But then, life keeps proving that while people talk about altruism a lot, it's not common.

bananabiscuit 5y ago
Yes it’s possible to address these fears. To do so requires that the media stop lying to the public. There are clear signals that this vaccine is more dangerous than any other vaccine brought to market thus far. Instead of reporting on it and investigating further, it gets brushed under the rug (except for right wing media, which blows this signal out of proportion and jumps to conclusions pre-maturely). This is what generates the fear and distrust. Personally I feel it’s very patronizing and condescending when I see that there is definitely something there to worry about or at least explore further, but then get told not to worry about it, shut up, and sit down because the fact checking experts said so.
- gizmo686 5y ago
  > There are clear signals that this vaccine is more dangerous than any other vaccine brought to market thus far. You need to be more specific than "this vaccine". [0] lists 21 vaccines that are "approved", and an additional 89 vaccines in development. From context, I assume you are talking about an mRNA vaccine approved for use in the USA, which brings the number of possible vaccines down to 2. Regardless, what signs are you looking at for "this vaccine" being the most dangerous one to hit the market. Of the top of my head, the vaccine I would be most worried about getting is the one for small pox. This vaccine infects you with a live, not weakened form of the vaccinia virus. After getting the vaccine you are given specific instructions on how to care for the injection sight. Failure to properly care for the injection side can lead to the virus spreading to other parts of the patients body, or even other individuals. Even when properly cared for, the smallpox vaccine often leave a permanent scar on the injection site. The second vaccine that comes to mind is the polio vaccine, which can cause outbreaks of vaccine derived polio in the surrounding population (although patient 0 typically does not experience adverse effects in this case). Currently vaccine derived polio is far more common than natural polio. For polio, we have switch over to a less effective vaccine to help avoid vaccine derived polio. [0] https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/...
browningstreet 5y ago
How many people are qualified to evaluate the risks of the vaccine, truly? I'm vaccinated, but my best friend -- a doctor -- isn't. He's not irrational, and he works with cancer patients, a pretty technical area of medicine.
- jeffrallen 5y ago
  He won't for long, not once his employer requires him to be vaccinated.

bananabiscuit 5y ago

Yes it’s possible to address these fears. To do so requires that the media stop lying to the public. There are clear signals that this vaccine is more dangerous than any other vaccine brought to market thus far. Instead of reporting on it and investigating further, it gets brushed under the rug (except for right wing media, which blows this signal out of proportion and jumps to conclusions pre-maturely). This is what generates the fear and distrust. Personally I feel it’s very patronizing and condescending when I see that there is definitely something there to worry about or at least explore further, but then get told not to worry about it, shut up, and sit down because the fact checking experts said so.

gizmo686 5y ago
> There are clear signals that this vaccine is more dangerous than any other vaccine brought to market thus far. You need to be more specific than "this vaccine". [0] lists 21 vaccines that are "approved", and an additional 89 vaccines in development. From context, I assume you are talking about an mRNA vaccine approved for use in the USA, which brings the number of possible vaccines down to 2. Regardless, what signs are you looking at for "this vaccine" being the most dangerous one to hit the market. Of the top of my head, the vaccine I would be most worried about getting is the one for small pox. This vaccine infects you with a live, not weakened form of the vaccinia virus. After getting the vaccine you are given specific instructions on how to care for the injection sight. Failure to properly care for the injection side can lead to the virus spreading to other parts of the patients body, or even other individuals. Even when properly cared for, the smallpox vaccine often leave a permanent scar on the injection site. The second vaccine that comes to mind is the polio vaccine, which can cause outbreaks of vaccine derived polio in the surrounding population (although patient 0 typically does not experience adverse effects in this case). Currently vaccine derived polio is far more common than natural polio. For polio, we have switch over to a less effective vaccine to help avoid vaccine derived polio. [0] https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/...

browningstreet 5y ago

How many people are qualified to evaluate the risks of the vaccine, truly? I'm vaccinated, but my best friend -- a doctor -- isn't. He's not irrational, and he works with cancer patients, a pretty technical area of medicine.

jeffrallen 5y ago
He won't for long, not once his employer requires him to be vaccinated.