Pfizer

[InbetweenDreams]

I've considered it, and I think I'm gonna pass. I live extremely rural, and the chances of getting it are very low, and I'm 33, so if I did catch it the chances of being fine are extremely high.

Rural as in like western Texas or Alaska? I live in Western NC and it is fairly rural, county I live in has about 10,000 residents, neighboring counties a bit more with around ~30k and it's getting bad here. Bad meaning the local and regional hospitals are all on diversion, meaning there's no beds. One of my co-workers also works with the county EMS and they had an ambulance wait with a bleeding patient (who was also on blood thinners) for nearly 3 hours.

I'm just not comfortable with it being so new and all, no long term studies etc. Sure you've heard the whole spill on it. It also really, really creeps me out how hard the government is pushing it. The more they shove it, the more I'm digging my heels it to not take it. But it's all about personal choice for me, I by no means discourage anyone from getting it if that's their prerogative. But I do get rather annoyed when people freak out on me for not having it, or when people say it should be forced via government intervention, or taking away ones ability to work, travel,  or buy food (a suggestion I saw) without it. Extremism is never good.

I do agree in that people shouldn't be forced to take a vaccine. I think their outreach efforts have been an utter failure. Lotteries and bribes is not how you do outreach. People don't trust health officials and this dog and pony show our politicians are having is ridiculous. Most of it I feel is just virtue signaling, look at this for example.



Indoor dining bad...but building a shack outside and calling it outdoor dining is ok. Just so they can say they care. So I agree with you on that front.

I used to be really skeptical about taking a statin. Unfortunately I have wonderful genetics and have high cholesterol, trust me it's not just what I stuff my face with. I used to be in pretty decent shape, I used to run long distance, I even competed in a triathlon. I even changed doctors because I didn't like them trying to shove statins in my face and so on. My new doctor told me that she had lost plenty of her patients due to heart disease and so forth but she's never lost anyone from taking a statin. Something to that effect. I can say this, I know people who lost family members to covid but I know of no one who has died from the vaccine or any other vaccine. I'm sure there are exceptions and I know that the vaccines aren't 100% effective.

It does concern me that I might have to face burying both of my parents. It concerns me that my niece who is 2 years old can't play with other kids, not because my niece is risk but her dad is immunocompromised and the effects of covid on him are unknown and it would break my heart if she grew up without her father.

I don't think it should be a government mandate to get the vaccine but I do believe it is a moral issue. It's not just about you getting covid or getting sick from it. And perhaps you are correct that it is unlikely that you would contract COVID or spread it to others being in a very rural area. I do agree that it is a personal choice and I think people should more closely examine their choices.

It is certainly in the realm of possibility that in 20 years that the vaccines cause some sort of problem that we didn't know about. Perhaps ads will run saying "Did you take the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19? If so you may be entitled a cash settlement!" That certainly may be true (but probably not), but I would rather die thinking I did the right thing than to do nothing and potentially be part of the reason that many people die, that my nieces grows up without a father, without grandparents and so on all because someone flapping jaw on Fox News or CNN convinced me not to.