Why I'm not getting vaccinated — yet: I'm not adamantly opposed to the vaccine, but I am opposed to the government's approach to the vaccine

I think the new mRNA COVID vaccines could be a wonderful breakthrough — maybe a whole new way of treating disease. Researchers are talking about the technology possibly being used for immunizing against malaria and curing viral cancers. After all, some of the best new medical advances have come in times of duress.

I just don't yet know that it is the best thing for me for now. I'm in the right age group. I nevertheless want to wait a year, see what happens in the longer term to those who got vaccinated, and then make an informed decision. I think that's my right, and I will fight anyone who wants to take other rights from me for exercising that one.

What bothers me is that the vaccines are being offered as a gigantic drug trial, a fact people tend to forget or ignore. They've each been approved by the FDA on an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Nobody knows if, or what, the long-term effects will be until there's been time to study them. I have no desire to be a guinea pig.

Nevertheless, the at-risk, the elderly, the terrified have compelling reasons to get vaccinated. What a relief, to be protected against this awful virus!

I also doubt whether every single person needs vaccination. For instance, why vaccinate someone who had COVID already? Don't they have antibodies?

According to the medical powers-that-be, immunity from a case of COVID "may" last a shorter or longer amount of time — but they're all seemingly united in betting on it being shorter, and COVID survivors benefiting from immunization, at least getting one of the two shots. They really don't know, do they? Nor do they know how long the immunity from the vaccine lasts

People who suffered from SARSCov-1 (the closest known relative of SARSCov-2) back in 2003 still have sufficient T cell immunity 17 years later.

So....anyone who already had Covid and still gets the experimental gene therapy is an idiot.

They should be testing everyone for antibodies before giving them the shot and telling them they don’t need it if they have antibodies.

Vaccination take-up is slowing down for some age groups.

I got my second Moderna shot on a walk-up basis at a Department of Health facility running at about 50% of capacity.

My neighbor Nick, about age 30, got his two jabs already. I’m not aware of any medical condition he might have that would have given him priority in the past.

I started writing a short, Science Fiction story years about about the use of emergency vaccines as a part of a Binary or Trinary biological weapon.

After doing some research on the subject I managed to freak myself out bad enough that I had to stop. We were in the middle of the ‘Bird Flu’ crisis at the time I had lost the last strand of trust in the government with Obama.

Due to the complete lack of Scientific honesty that surrounds Covid I will not submit to this ‘vaccine’. I don't know what's in it and I don't believe that there are many people who do.

“someone who had COVID already? Don’t they have antibodies?”

They might have gotten infected by the UK variant and would normally have antibodies against that variant.

I have no knowledge if human UK variant antibodies are effective against say the South African variant, and I suspect Dr. Fauci doesn’t either.

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