and the long term effects of the vaccine are?
That has been the number one argument I have had since these vaccines started to roll out - we do not know the long-term effects yet. I refused to be vaccinated. We cannot yet time travel into the future to judge long term effects. All we can do is "predict"; analogous to the weatherman doing the short-term predictions, and Farmer's Almanac doing long-term predictions.
Unfortunately, if everyone thinks like I do and refuses to get vaccinated due to the long-term effects of virus or vaccine being unknown, this stalemate leads to we'll never know which ended up being worse: long term-effects from either Covid-19 or any of the vaccines created - until it's too late.
Another possible stalemate scenario is that the next time a similar "worldwide health hazard" occurs, do we flip a coin IN CHOOSING whether or not to get vaccinated?
Damn if you do, damn if you don't.