Some of us are not hysterical or terrified see the disease for what it is and know we will be safer with the vaccine
I’m with you on both counts. I’m in no rush to get the vaccine not out of any concern for the negligible risks, but because I don’t need it as badly. I’ll get the vaccine in due time, but in the meantime, I’m at low risk from the virus.
But I think the news here is that if the virus doesn’t scare the respondents of this survey sufficiently to motivate them to take the vaccine despite their concerns, it shouldn’t scare the rest of us very badly. If isn’t enough of a threat to warrant the hospitals compelling their employees to take a vaccine that has been demonstrated to be 95% effective and safe, then it certainly isn’t enough of a threat to warrant compelling any private citizen to shut himself in at home, close his business, or cover his face in public.
All I’ve wanted is for “non-pharmaceutical interventions” like lockdowns and mask mandates to be scrutinized at least as rigorously as, if not much more rigorously than, pharmaceutical interventions like vaccines and therapeutics. If anything, one should require far more compelling evidence to support compelling someone to wear a mask against his will (let alone shut down his business) than to allow someone to take a drug.