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I'm surprised to see such a high percentage of "NO" responses. I'm genuinely curious to understand why
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Some of this can always be explained by the "lizardman constant": https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and... Also, ballpark 20% of Americans already had the disease, and the benefit for them (while still there) is lower. Also pregnancy. So multiple reasons why 10% is probably not crazy. For what it was worth, I was also a bit confused by the order, as I think they randomize it or something and al…
Immunity from having COVID lasts about 3 months, it seems. Immunity from the vaccine will last for a year or more and will still work as expected even if you had COVID. “I’ve had COVID” is a bad reason to refuse the vaccine.
Rates of COVID reinfection remain vanishingly small.
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…
> It's "fuck you, I don't trust you to work in my best interests". While I'm not sure that the rest isn't edgy satire, I definitely agree with this. This vaccine in particular has become a political talking point and moral soapbox.
The people yelling that vaccines are bad usually know nothing about how they work. The politicians trying to take credit for them as miracle pills have had nothing to do with the research. And most of the people telling you to get vaccinated have had no involvement in the vaccine's development.
You can think all the people above don't work in your best interests. That doesn't mean the researchers and scientists developing those things also are.
It's fucking depressing to see how many people are so readily distrusting just about everything that makes the modern world the most incredible achievement in human history. They'll use and abuse every advancement in health care and technology all the while shouting their bloodshot eyes out against 5g, vaccines and whatever scapegoat of the day they decide to pick.
I'm surprised to see such a high percentage of "NO" responses. I'm genuinely curious to understand why
Young and healthy, don't really care to get covid as risk is very low. But the vaccine is new we never know what we could discover about its effect in 10 years
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How many of the yes voters took the seasonal flu shot? Genuinely asking
The harder part was getting elderly relatives the seasonal flu shot safely. Going to the doctors is unsafe right now if they have no specific appointment otherwise.
Luckily they did a "drive through" flu-shot event, and we got it for them that way. Essentially just stick your arm out the window, jab, and go.
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Why? It's a disease with a 97% survival rate. A huge majority of cases are asymptomatic. As in zero symptoms, zero negative health effects, none. Why does it even matter either way? 3% of the population is severely at risk from this. 3%. If those 3% of people are vaccinated, then why does it even matter if anyone else is?
> If those 3% of people are vaccinated, then why does it even matter if anyone else is? They can't all be. A significant chunk of the people at risk are also immunocompromised, which means the vaccine will be counter indicated and they rely on the disease not reaching them. In order for the disease not to reach them, you need herd immunity. Also, do you want to have a normal life again? Take the damn vaccine. We won'…
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.
We don’t have enough information yet to say how protected someone might be from being infected again if they have antibodies to the virus.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...
How long IgM and IgG antibodies remain detectable following infection is not known.
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it remains uncertain to what degree and for how long individuals with antibodies (neutralizing or total) are protected against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 or what concentration of antibodies may be needed to provide such protection.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...
I'm surprised to see such a high percentage of "NO" responses. I'm genuinely curious to understand why
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?
How many of the yes voters took the seasonal flu shot? Genuinely asking