Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by nostromo » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

The demographics data behind current polling are interesting: https://i.imgur.com/nu1ZfE0.png

Younger people are much less likely to take the vaccine than are older people. People under 45 years old are evenly split between wanting the vaccine and not wanting it. Black respondents are also much less likely to report willingness to the vaccine, perhaps reflecting historic distrust of the medical system.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by DennisAleynikov » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

easy for me to say yes, nothing seems weird to me about a vaccine helping stop the pandemic with immunity

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by sandworm101 » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

jjohansson wrote: post #32

EDITED to remove most of the post. Does anyone have information on possible side effects?

"High risk" for a vaccine is still a lower risk than that of catching/suffering/dieing from covid. It is a numbers game, a balance between risks. It isn't a magic pill to stop evil in its tracks.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by airstrike » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

thisjeremiah wrote: post #3

TIL u can do surveys on HN

The how is left as an exercise to the reader^W hacker

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by kortilla » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

bognition wrote: post #12

I'm surprised to see such a high percentage of "NO" responses. I'm genuinely curious to understand why

Reasons I’ve heard:

- The rushed nature of the vaccines. “Fastest approved vaccine” is not re-assuring if you don’t understand what trade was made for that accelerated timeline.

- “I’ll just stay isolated until it dies off”

- “I don’t trust western medicine”

- “I don’t trust the FDA or big pharma”

- “I don’t care if I get covid . People at risk can take the vaccine”

Don’t forget how many people don’t even take the flu shot.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by eikenberry » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

"EVENTUALLY" should be an option. I'm low risk and was full time remote even before this. Better to let high risk, health care and service industry people have first go at the vaccine.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by ageitgey » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

briefcomment wrote: post #36

ageitgey wrote: post #5

I was a vaccine trial participant and got injected 6 months ago. I'm still alive. AMA.

Have you felt kinda lousy/lethargic/sickly since then, more so than usual?

No, I've felt fine after the initial day or so of side effects. With the booster shot, I had similar but even less intense and shorter side effects.

FWIW, I usually get no side effects with a flu shot but others get more so I'm sure it varies person to person.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by nostromo » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:50 PM UTC

radicalbyte wrote: post #27

I'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.

No need to worry about who should go first. They will be rolling it out based on need.

When it's available to you, go get it.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by jkw » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:50 PM UTC

I think there's a difference between:

(a) I WILL WAIT because I don't trust it yet, and

(b) I WILL WAIT because I want to let the more at-risk people to have access it to first

That seems to be lost in the poll

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Post by kortilla » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:50 PM UTC

radicalbyte wrote: post #27

I'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.

> avoid drinking close physical contact

I’ve gone whole months without drinking close physical contact!