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They're probably like me. I know the vaccine helps. I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID. So I don't get the vaccine because I don't like injecting

They're probably like me. I know the vaccine helps. I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID. So I don't get the vaccine because I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there.

jaas 5y ago
It’s not all about you. Unvaccinated people are more likely to infect others. Stop being selfish and get vaccinated.
- sdjfhsdkfhlskjh 5y ago
  >It’s not all about you... >Stop being selfish and... His body his choice.
  - staplers 5y ago
    Healthcare providers choice to fire their employees.
    - TacticalCoder 5y ago
      Even some who got tested positive in the past and who have better immunity than most of the vaccinated ones...
bigodbiel 5y ago
Or they got it already, and equally or better protected than by vaccination.
- jjwiseman 5y ago
  There's evidence that the vaccines give better protection than natural infection. There's also evidence that being infected and then being vaccinated gives better protection than either one by itself. Additionally, this isn't how public health works. Vaccines are a level of protection that is easy to standardize and operationalize. We don't let schoolchildren skip getting the chickenpox vaccine if they've already had chickenpox.
  - TacticalCoder 5y ago
    OK but then make the vaccine (which one btw? there's so many to choose from for sars-cov-2) mandatory. Don't say people have a choice, then punish those who decided to choose to not get vaccinated. I'm fully vaccinated and so is my wife, but I'll fight for the right of those who decide to not get vaccinated. It's not ok to call other names (like "egoist") when they exercise the choice they still, to this date, have.
AdamHominem 5y ago
> I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID There's no such thing as "near zero risk from COVID." There are factors that make you high risk (age, obesity, etc) but whether covid ends up being "nothing" to "a bit sick for a few days" to "sick for weeks" to "hospitalized" to "fatal" is basically luck of the draw. The odds of dying from covid are far, far worse than the odds of any complication from the vaccine. 95%+ of the people in my area's ICUs for covid are unvaccinated, according to the supervising physician who was interviewed on the radio. > I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there. That's...not how that works. This sounds like the same stuff new parents believe about how they don't want to "overload" their baby's immune system with too many vaccines at once. Their immune system sees more "load" from them picking a pacifier off the floor of their living room and sticking it in their mouth. Please speak to your primary care physician.
lamontcg 5y ago
You're getting the spike protein mRNA in you one way or another. Only question is if you want to go the low risk route or the high risk route (and your risk of hospitalization is non-zero, it runs at about 2% for 20 year olds, even though death rates are much lower).

They're probably like me. I know the vaccine helps. I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID. So I don't get the vaccine because I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there.

jaas 5y ago

It’s not all about you. Unvaccinated people are more likely to infect others. Stop being selfish and get vaccinated.

sdjfhsdkfhlskjh 5y ago
>It’s not all about you... >Stop being selfish and... His body his choice.
- staplers 5y ago
  Healthcare providers choice to fire their employees.
  - TacticalCoder 5y ago
    Even some who got tested positive in the past and who have better immunity than most of the vaccinated ones...

bigodbiel 5y ago

Or they got it already, and equally or better protected than by vaccination.

jjwiseman 5y ago
There's evidence that the vaccines give better protection than natural infection. There's also evidence that being infected and then being vaccinated gives better protection than either one by itself. Additionally, this isn't how public health works. Vaccines are a level of protection that is easy to standardize and operationalize. We don't let schoolchildren skip getting the chickenpox vaccine if they've already had chickenpox.
- TacticalCoder 5y ago
  OK but then make the vaccine (which one btw? there's so many to choose from for sars-cov-2) mandatory. Don't say people have a choice, then punish those who decided to choose to not get vaccinated. I'm fully vaccinated and so is my wife, but I'll fight for the right of those who decide to not get vaccinated. It's not ok to call other names (like "egoist") when they exercise the choice they still, to this date, have.

AdamHominem 5y ago

> I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID There's no such thing as "near zero risk from COVID." There are factors that make you high risk (age, obesity, etc) but whether covid ends up being "nothing" to "a bit sick for a few days" to "sick for weeks" to "hospitalized" to "fatal" is basically luck of the draw. The odds of dying from covid are far, far worse than the odds of any complication from the vaccine. 95%+ of the people in my area's ICUs for covid are unvaccinated, according to the supervising physician who was interviewed on the radio. > I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there. That's...not how that works. This sounds like the same stuff new parents believe about how they don't want to "overload" their baby's immune system with too many vaccines at once. Their immune system sees more "load" from them picking a pacifier off the floor of their living room and sticking it in their mouth. Please speak to your primary care physician.

lamontcg 5y ago

You're getting the spike protein mRNA in you one way or another. Only question is if you want to go the low risk route or the high risk route (and your risk of hospitalization is non-zero, it runs at about 2% for 20 year olds, even though death rates are much lower).