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My brother got the vaccine and had every symptom.
Why is vaccine necessary for a virus with a survival rate over 99%?
You or anyone else can toss anything you want at me. I understand this thing can be serious. A distant family member recently passed from complications from it.
Aren’t the 20-odd flu vaccines watered down versioned the flu strains so your body can produce the antibodies? And isn’t the yearly flu vaccine, pretty much a guess? Showing that some flu seasons are good, when they get it right? And others are real bad when they get it wrong?
gas dr is correct. These are not live vaccines, though I understand China is developing live vaccines. Big surprise there.
That said, I have had the vaccination. I am only doing it because it is what I do in my profession, and I am hoping it will put my wife at ease who is very anxious. I have risk factors, but if it were up to me, I would take my chances because as an American, if I maintain we should not have shut the country down, I need to be prepared (and am prepared) to live life regardless of this ‘risk’.
The Coronavirus is real and to some people dangerous. The virus is no hoax.
The reaction of this country and this government is a hoax. I would understand this kind of response to something like Bubonic Plague, but not only is this not that, they wouldn’t have to have the government mandate quarantine and immunizations.
With a 40% mortality rate, people would be fighting each other to get the vaccination no matter how dangerous, and they would be wearing biohazard suits and barricading themselves in their houses.
But this is not that.
We should have been protecting people who were at serious risk and allowing others to make the individual choice to protect themselves if they wish.
The hoax was how this country has handled it.
Think of it this way. The way vaccines work is that they stimulate your body’s immune system to create a defense against a pathogen and provide immunity.
There are a variety of ways of do it. The first vaccinations done for smallpox were done simply by breaking a person’s skin deep enough to put the pus or exudation from a sick or dead patient and trigger a response. People did die from it, and often.
Most of the time, what you want to do is introduce something into the body that is less harmful or not harmful, and make the body think it is bad so that it produces antibodies that will attack the real thing should it appear.
Pretty amazing device, is our immune system.
I am not an anti-vaxxer, but neither do I support forcing people at the point of a real gun or the point of a gun called “social pressure” to get a vaccine.
I think that should be a personal decision.