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"We" are people intelligent to recognize that vaccination against diseases like the flu is a good idea even if we're healthy and unlikely to have significant co
by tallanvor 5y ago
"We" are people intelligent to recognize that vaccination against diseases like the flu is a good idea even if we're healthy and unlikely to have significant complications. "We" know that the shot will make it less likely for us to get sick, and that we're more likely to have a mild case if we do get it after being vaccinated. "We" also recognize that getting vaccinated helps reduce the number of people who spread a virus that can be deadly to other members of society, particularly the very young, very old, and those with compromised immune systems.
Getting vaccinated not only helps yourself, it helps those around you.
- jaywalk 5y ago"You are not intelligent because you make different personal medical decisions than I do."
- jaspax 5y agoIndeed. Every time I read a post like the grandparent I move closer to full-blown antivaxx.
- merrywhether 5y agoPedantically, basing your stance purely on being tired of being told what to do _isn’t_ an intelligent strategy. Not saying that’s your entire stance, but emotional contrarianism is not a good reason to update your priors.
- trevyn 5y agoIt can move you closer to an environment where you aren’t often told what to do, though.
- spurgu 5y agoIt doesn't help when that thing you're being told to do is constantly changing, and in addition doesn't seem to change where it matters. It seeds doubt and uncertainty, which is surely what we're seeing all around us. No one knows what to do with Covid. And those who claim they do for certainty are sure as hell full of shit.
- potta_coffee 5y agoI was in the military for years. Vaccines galore for any and every conceivable illness. I was required to have flu shots. Every single flu shot I've had gave me the flu. Full blown sickness, within a day of receiving the shot. Since leaving the military I've not had a flu shot and I've not had the flu. Obviously it's anecdotal but you'll never convince me to start taking flu shots after such repeated experiences.
- bink 5y agoThat's not how flu shots work. You might have had an immune response that had you feeling down, but flu shots don't give you the flu.
- potta_coffee 5y agoIt's semantics whether or not full-blown flu symptoms are "the flu" or not; I get the flu shot, then I get sick.
- edmundsauto 5y agoExcept you aren’t going to risk getting very sick (pneumonia) from the vaccinated response. And you aren’t going to give the virus to someone else.
- potta_coffee 5y agoEnjoy your moral superiority, and I'll enjoy not feeling like dog crap for a week after getting the shot.
- spurgu 5y agoI find it insane that someone would argue against your personal experience like that. I've had the feeling all along that once we've started getting people forced into perpetual Covid vaccinations it's gonna move into seasonal influenza vaccines. Judging by this discourse my hunch is not far off.