> You don't get a choice about COVID getting into your body, and that is far worse than whatever possible long term effects of the vaccine might be. You seem c

> You don't get a choice about COVID getting into your body, and that is far worse than whatever possible long term effects of the vaccine might be. You seem certain of this, but the vaccines are new enough that we can't possibly have long term data to even evaluate. Bodies are complicated, even more than software systems. I've been in enough SEV reviews where the root cause was seemingly innocuous to know that I can't anticipate with much confidence that any particular change won't result in some cascading failure scenario. This is why we have test environments. Luckily in software it's extremely rare for a change to take years to manifest bad behavior, but not so in medicine. I'm no biologist, but an obvious question to ask is if the spike protein by itself, which the vaccine will produce, has different impacts than the spike protein coupled to the virus envelope. It's certainly smaller, will it be able to pass through areas where the whole virus package wouldn't? What about the end of the spike that would otherwise be attached to the envelope, will it have an effect? You can't naively draw a Venn diagram of virus and vaccine impacts where the vaccine impacts are fully a subset of the virus impacts.