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Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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I 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…

Wait, you would literally rather die than get the injection?

Color me skeptical.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

#402

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.

> ”then people who are super social (or stupid + spreading the plague)”

Many such people will have antibodies already. As do I. I’ll get the vaccine if it becomes a requirement to travel or whatever, but I see no need for it in the short term if you’re low risk and already had Covid.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Pregnant women or women who are planning on becoming pregnant should not have it according to UK government guidelines. That’s a pretty good reason to click NO.

Um, you do know that alcohol is something that pregnant women should avoid? Will you quit drinking alcohol?

I was under the impression that this is common knowledge. Most pregnant women I've known did, indeed, forego alcohol during their pregnancy.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Outside clinical trials nobody in Germany or France has been vaccinated as there are no approved vaccines in those countries.

> nobody in Germany or France has been vaccinated as there are no approved vaccines Which creates a force field around the warehouses in which it sits? Come on. I guess I’ll revise to I know of people with substantial resources, hundreds of millions and billions at their disposal, who have been injected with something they believe to be the Pfizer vaccine.

I'm sure it's possible, but that means effectively that said person is now an undocumented trial participant. They have gotten injected with an unapproved medical product. That's a risk they've taken in order to get in early. The physician that administered it has also committed a crime that can cost them their license to practice.

There are easier ways for people in power to get vaccines. In China, the government has granted exceptional permissions to vaccinate a number of people with a vaccine that has not yet completed phase 3 trials. The list of people who qualify for that vaccine is said to be several million people long. It's much easier to get on said list in China than it is anywhere else. A number of other governments have also made exceptions for political leaders and such, treating them with non-approved medication or vaccines. For example, the sheikh of Dubai has been vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine before approval (in a very public display of faith in said vaccine, in order to promote vaccination to the population). Some countries are saying they won't bother waiting for phase 3 trials to end on some products and will make vaccines generally available based on current data. This is the case for Russia (with Sputnik-V) and Morocco (with the Sinopharm vaccine). I consider it highly likely that their heads of state are vaccinated under an exceptional authorization.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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(reads news) "The F.D.A. accelerates its timeline to authorize the Pfizer vaccine to Friday evening after a threat from Trump's chief of staff: The White House told the F.D.A chief he should start working on his next job if he didn't get the vaccine authorization done Friday, an official said." -- NYTimes ... I think I will select, "I WILL WAIT"

The FDA doesn't actually approve drugs, it has an independent group of scientists/professors that approve them.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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For some reason I get a blank screen on HN polls on my normal Chrome configuration, javascript error trace: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'querySelector' of null at HNComments.markupToNodeList (hn.js:397) at HNComments.apply (hn.js:666) at Object.doAfterCommentsLoad (hn.js:1265) at Object.loadMoreLink (hn.js:1243) at Object.doCommentsList (hn.js:1070) at Object.init (hn.js:797) at hn.js:1913 Works in Incog…

You can slowly enable some extensions in Incognito until it happens again.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Which of the several vaccines?

Edit: original order was broken so removed number.

Edit2: seriously, which vaccine are you trying to poll for? Before most of us have a chance at whichever jab you’re talking about, there will be several vaccines available to most HN readers.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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I've had Covid-19. As far as I know we still don't know if having it leads to immunity but wouldn't having it and recovering be "better" than a vaccine? If so, why get a vaccine for something you are immune to?

I’m in the same boat. I had it and it was super mild so I already... - have very likely immunity or at least a much better response the next time - despite having been exposed to it the first time having had super mild symptoms so I don’t need protection from a non threat - coronaviruses mutate a lot slower and people who had sars-cov-1 still had a t-cell immunity even 10 years after their infection and there is litt…

> it was super mild

It might be that weaker cases give less immunity. If you were exposed to smaller amounts of the virus in the first case.

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