Honeyman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:32 pm
km1125 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:28 pm
Honeyman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 5:42 pm
Thanks for answering. For me, whether the percentage is 1%, 5%, 20%, etc., I won't take that chance with my life when I know there is a vaccine available that increases my odds of living. It's an easy decision in my eyes.
And I agree we do not know the long-term implications of the vaccinations.
That's the thing. You
don't know at this point if it increases your odds of living or not, as the available data is ONLY for deaths due to catching COVID or its side-effects.
And your "chance of death" via COVID is probably not going to change one iota if you've already had the initial shots and are contemplating the booster, but the booster could definitely have deleterious effects 2, 5 or 10 years down the road...
we just don't know yet and no one is really looking into that
at all.
I suspect they're not looking at it because they're afraid of what they might find.
But if you trust science, you are more educated. At least in my eyes. We've learned a lot in the past 2 years, and vacines have been very successful in the past.
What science?? "Trusting science" is about faith, not the scientific method. If you BELIEVED in science, you'd want to COLLECT DATA and let the DATA determine the results. We IGNORE data and intentionally DON'T COLLECT DATA, so what real "science" is there to follow??
What have we actually learned over the last two years?? Have we actually learned how to TREAT those afflicted with a SARS-COV2 infection to prevent serious damage or death? Have our statistics significantly improved in either one of those metrics? Regardless of the vaccine availability, are we really ANY better at addressing COVID patients than we were 18 months ago? Have we actually learned ANYTHING about which humans are more likely to be severely affected with a COVID infection and why they are more affected than others? Have we learned ANYTHING about why some folks are asymptomatic and others only mildly affected while some of their peers have severe symptoms or death? Have we learned how to triage those who get infected so that those who are
really at risk get plenty of early treatment? Have we even looked at 1% of the data to try and come up with answers to those last questions? (No, I'd submit!)
We've been successful with vaccine in the past, but those vaccines are significantly different from the vaccines we're using for SARS-COV2. We may have broken new ground that can be successfully used in the future for other things, or we may have opened up a 'can of worms'. We just really don't know yet and aren't interested in finding out (yet). That's not "science".