I'm surprised to see such a high percentage of "NO" responses. I'm genuinely curious to understand why
maybe they're environmentalists? seems like a deadly virus is good for global warming and habitat extinction.
any other reasons?
Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
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#332I'll take it but only later in the year when it is more widely available. People at high risk should go first, then people who are super social (or stupid + spreading the plague). Especially younger people, they need to get pricked. Do you really think they're going to avoid drinking close physical contact in spring? Me neither.
So people that are young that have next to no risk from covid should take a highly experimental vaccine with no longitudinal analysis. Not so great risk analysis there.
Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
#333I will not be taking anything under any sort of widespread social pressure or appeals to authority. I fundamentally lack trust in modern medicine and society in general to the point that it doesn't matter what "scientific evidence" says. Modern medical care gives us robotic, heartless nonsense like "routine" circumcision. Humanity cannot be trusted to act intelligently and empathically on a collective level. I'm a sk…
cant tell if parody
Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
#334Yes, but I won't be an early adopter.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oxford. Side effects were just a day of feeling half-crummy. Not a big deal.
Curious do you feel crummy after other vaccinations like Flu, MMR, etc? Or was this the first time with those symptoms from a vaccine?
First time. The side effects were not a big deal at all, but they were more than I get from a flu shot.
Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What if somebody has asymptomatic covid infection? He or she spreads it without intent, you can not blame them. Yes, given what is widely publicly known about the disease, I can very easily blame people who are involved engaging in high-spread-risk behavior despite being a-(or, more likely if they are actually spreading it, pre-)symptomatic and who are thereby spreading the virus they don’t know they have.
Harsh. Would you be comfortable convicting those people with attempted murder?
> Would you be comfortable convicting those people with attempted murder?
No, attempted murder requires specific intent. For the most egregious conduct when they know they are at particularly high risk of being a spreader, even without intent, if someone actually dies, it might arguably be close to depraved-indifference rather than intent-to-kill murder, but more generally negligent homicide if they actually kill people and reckless endangerment, otherwise, would be closer selections from the generically-common American set of crimes. But I’m not arguing they should be criminally liable; saying that an act is not beyond moral blame is not the same that it technically fits — or, even if it does, should necessarily be prosecuted as — a crime.
Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'll take it but only later in the year when it is more widely available. Same. Just like first generation Apple hardware, even if looks as good as the M1, I'd rather have other people take the plunge before I do. In about a year, I may. By then, we'll have 2 years worth of data from the test group - good enough! If I perceive any serious risk, I won't. Being young and with no risk factors, I have little to gain -…
Ok. So you will stay in quarantine in tour home that whole time you wait
Everyone keeps saying this like it's a bad thing! I didn't leave the house for three months back in March, and it was great. The ability to work from home, a functioning Internet, and a pre-existing Brexit stockpile which came in handy unexpectedly early. I would happily be dropped to the bottom of the vaccine queue.
Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t trust the US government and would prefer to wait and see if there are side effects. Are there risks to taking a vaccine that was rapidly produced? We won’t know until we know, and so I will wait at the minimum. So no, I won’t take it until I see how it plays out in society. And if I am persuaded by the evidence, I might take it. I’ve taken only 1 flu shot. As someone in mid-20s, I have low risk and honestly w…
> I’ve taken only 1 flu shot. As someone in mid-20s, I have low risk and honestly would prefer getting the flu to injecting myself with a vaccine. So I’ve elected to stop getting flu shots and take the risk. This is a very selfish take. Unless you're living your life without any human interaction, then you're contributing to the spread of the flu and soon to be covid which impacts people who are at risk.
Someone just replied saying that they "fundamentally don't care" if they spread the virus because "we'll all die of stupid things". They deleted it or a mod removed it.
Are these the people downvoting me?
Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
#339Remember Thalidomide? Remember asbestos? I'll wait.
The vaccines have already been tested in tens of thousands of people.
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