Plenty of people under 70 are being hospitalized with this disease and some of them are dying. Regardless, firefighters come into contact with vulnerable people all the time as part of their emergency medical response role. It's firefighters showing up when grandma falls in the tub. Firefighters showing up when a cancer patient or heart patient has a medical issue. And if they're infected and contagious with COVID-19, some of those people they're showing up to help will die.
1. Nobody has any reason to trust in the efficacy of a vaccine that has been approved by the U.S. government.
2. Nobody has any reason to believe that such a vaccine has no harmful long-term effects.
You make a lot of sense. But I’m going to check in later just to see the flak.
There is another big reason for firefighters to take it. Sure they may survive COVID..but they may end up long haulers with damaged lungs...fatigue and inability to carry that heavy equipment
It’s a choice they have to make.
China warning not to take Pfizer poison...which is some irony right there.
Previous Pfizer employee warning not to take vaccine- May be sour grapes
So if anyone 70+ wants to get inoculated, if they have balanced the tradeoff between the odds, then what the hell is your problem?
If a 30-year-old LA County EMT doesn't want the vax, good on him. It's up to the 70+ crew to get it done, and I say that in good conscience who just took both parents to get the Pfizer vax on Friday.
It’s quite clear that at least 50% of the US are going to refuse COVID vacations. Those that decline, that is their right. Soon, everyone who wants to be vaccinated will have access to it. Once supply reaches that level, all, and I mean all mandated mitigation efforts must be eliminated. No mask, no shut-downs, none of it.
If one is vaccinated, one assumes the risk however minuscule.
If one refuses, they assume the risk of becoming infected both for themselves and any family members that have refused the vaccine.