As of today, all of my immediate family have gotten vaccinated. They are all trying to get me to be vaccinated as well, but my response is that it’s a personal decision. Everyone needs to weigh the risks vs. the potential benefits, and that calculus is different for everyone. My 84 year old mother got it and I’m glad she did. As for me, I feel the risks outweigh the benefits. I’m 58 years old and in good health.
The vaccine is not a death sentence and is probably safe for most people. I think a lot of people are missing the point about the vaccine. The COVID vaccines may not be dangerous for most people, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a nefarious agenda behind them. I view this pandemic as a dry run to try to normalize the idea of forced vaccinations. There have been some deaths due to the vaccine, but on a percentage basis they have been small. This is the dry run designed to “disprove” the warnings of anti-vaxers. “What are you talking about? Everyone I know has had the vaccine and their all fine.” That’s the purpose of the current mass vaccination push. It’s to train people to accept it as normal so in the future people will accept forced vaccination without giving it a second thought. It’s not this round of vaccinations I’m particularly worried about. It’s the next round - 5 or 10 years down the road - in which people are ordered to take a more dangerous vaccine and have been trained to accept it as normal and safe.
Senator Lankford snuck into a migrant camp and filmed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FtX3mAWwuY
If this is all part of the plan, then I have to say I’m underwhelmed.
I agree with your premise though why not simply give a saline solution?
Moderna vaccine mRNA-1273 and Pfizer vaccine BNT162 both made for covid. They're bad but NOTHING compared to Moderna's mRNA-1345 vaccine for Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) they're working on.