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The issue is that the most vulnerable elderly people get terrible effects or die from the immune response. They need to be healthy enough to receive the vaccine
by GhettoComputers 5y ago
The issue is that the most vulnerable elderly people get terrible effects or die from the immune response. They need to be healthy enough to receive the vaccine, if they’re old and sickly it’s better to vaccinate everyone around them and continue to keep their immune response up.
The second most vulnerable elderly people are prime candidates for vaccination though. They’re not as old, more healthy and less likely to have complications from the vaccine. It can be very dangerous for very old or sickly people and those are the people that others vaccinate for so they don’t get it themselves.
The heart problems aren’t common but I didn’t get vaccinated myself, I was waiting for the novavax which they kept delaying. Hopefully by next year it’ll be released, I’ll be first in line since it doesn’t have the same issues that concern me about mRNA or adenovirus.
- m0zg 5y ago> elderly people get terrible effects or die from the immune response. I'm not convinced this is true. As far as I can tell after looking at the data (as thoroughly fucked up and obfuscated as it is) the vaccine is well tolerated in the elderly. Certainly much better tolerated than COVID itself, especially for people 65 and over.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoDepends on how poor their heath is. I am not sure if you remember, but they said that everyone should get vaccinated so they can prevent the most vulnerable from getting sick.