Curious to see what everyone's view here is.
I voted no (which you will see). To me, there's simply no real risk to me from COVID, and I don't trust a hastily concocted vaccine. So I will opt out, as will my wife and child.
I voted no. Taking a vaccination has its own risks and are often not effective anyways. From wikipedia.org:
A 2012
meta-analysis found that flu vaccination was effective 67percent of the time; the populations that benefited the most were
HIV-positive adults aged 18 to 55 (76percent), healthy adults aged 18 to 46 (approximately 70percent), and healthy children aged six months to 24 months (66percent).
[21] The influenza vaccine also appear to protect against
myocardial infarction with a benefit of 15 to 45%.
[22]
EffectivenessEdit
US vaccine effectiveness by start year:
[23][24][25]
2004 10%
2005 21%
2006 52%
2007 37%
2008 41%
2009 56%
2010 60%
2011 47%
2012 49%
2013 52%
2014 19%
2015 48%
2016 40%
2017 38%
2018 29%
2019 45% est
Covid is not dangerous enough to take on those risks for me. Further, Covid, as other influenza like viruses mutate into new strains each year, reducing or eliminating the effectiveness of a vaccine anyways. In addition, I wonder if our immunity systems have a limit to its capacity to “Remember” all the various viruses. In other words, does getting a vaccine shot reduce my immune system’s capacity to ward off new, potentially more dangerous virus infection?
I am happy to wear PPE, including googles, face mask, and gloves. Also happy to frequently and throughly wash my hands, frequently sanitize frequenty touched surfaces, and regulariy ventilate living or workspaces. Avoiding situations involving high risk of exposure are also best practices for reducing Covid infection or spread odds