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Welcome to the club! Almost two years of "two more weeks and we'll be out of this! just do your duty and we'll be free of this pandemic!" I was very vaccine h

Welcome to the club! Almost two years of "two more weeks and we'll be out of this! just do your duty and we'll be free of this pandemic!" I was very vaccine hesitant and would say I was coerced by government, private businesses (and the governments mandates handed to them), and by my peers. I ended up getting the vaccine recently but I am very scared of the potential consequences. We need the world to rip off the bandaid and open up instead of our leaders prolonging this pandemic to gain more and more power.

hellojesus 5y ago
I fixed any concern by buying long term disability insurance before I got it. May be worth checking out.
rightbyte 5y ago
Wouldn't any long term effect show by now? E.g. Astra Zenica's was pulled after it was shown to give clots. I guess Youtube would supress reports of that now until it became official news ...
- namibj 5y ago
  The initial study was very heavily affected by sampling bias (medical personnel with hallway rumors and unbureocratic access to screening techniques). Add to that that the risk of blood clots is strongly increased by typical isolation at home due to a lack of regular movement/exercise, and the (significant, but still very low) heightened incidence rate isn't enough to deny people vaccination.
wwweston 5y ago
> I am very scared of the potential consequences Any particular reason? I'm someone who was told to be cautious about some vaccines by medical professionals due to a past condition, and so when the covid vaccines started to come available, I both consulted a doctor and did some of my own investigation of things other professionals have published before determining to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Also I've been following VAERS reports since, just to keep a heads up. As far as I can tell, adverse events from vaccination of any kind are orders of magnitude rarer than corresponding adverse effects from infection. And nobody who is saying anything about "long term effects" that might show up later has been able to advance any plausible model for how that would happen considering that's vanishingly rare from vaccination in general.

hellojesus 5y ago

I fixed any concern by buying long term disability insurance before I got it. May be worth checking out.

rightbyte 5y ago

Wouldn't any long term effect show by now? E.g. Astra Zenica's was pulled after it was shown to give clots. I guess Youtube would supress reports of that now until it became official news ...

namibj 5y ago
The initial study was very heavily affected by sampling bias (medical personnel with hallway rumors and unbureocratic access to screening techniques). Add to that that the risk of blood clots is strongly increased by typical isolation at home due to a lack of regular movement/exercise, and the (significant, but still very low) heightened incidence rate isn't enough to deny people vaccination.

wwweston 5y ago

> I am very scared of the potential consequences Any particular reason? I'm someone who was told to be cautious about some vaccines by medical professionals due to a past condition, and so when the covid vaccines started to come available, I both consulted a doctor and did some of my own investigation of things other professionals have published before determining to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Also I've been following VAERS reports since, just to keep a heads up. As far as I can tell, adverse events from vaccination of any kind are orders of magnitude rarer than corresponding adverse effects from infection. And nobody who is saying anything about "long term effects" that might show up later has been able to advance any plausible model for how that would happen considering that's vanishingly rare from vaccination in general.