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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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Because it will take days for you to notice that you have it and you will continue to spread it. Even if you do not die from it, others that caught it from you might. If you are vaccinated it might be that you do not spread it anymore. It seems that there is no data yet for the current corona vaccines, but other vaccines prevent spreading so the new ones might as well.

But those people that may get it and who are at risk should have gotten the vaccine.

Such is nature. I don't want to take even a 0.1% risk of some vaccine side-effect to protect a theoretical person. Sorry, not sorry.

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Keep in mind that Coronavirus vaccine are novel and not field tested, whereas other vaccines are field tested for decades.

I would think 30,000 people tested is pretty close to "field tested".

No, that is beta-testing. Field tested status will hopefully be reached next year when a year of successful deliveries to millions of people is achieved!

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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It's as nonsensical question as "Will you stop your car when you see red traffic lights?". If it's not obligatory it's useless or at least at high risk of being so. So I consider such poll too preposterous to even deserve an answer.

Are you aware of any free countries where vaccination is/will be obligatory?

Italy, France, Romania, among others.

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He thought he was saving the world but it turned out there was a whole bunch doing just fine in Vermont.

That's the movie. In the book he realizes the mutants are the new humans, he is the outsider. To them, he is the monster, the one who steals their children while they sleep and experiments on them. The title refers to he himself being a legend, something from a previous age. I love the movie and love it, especially the DC with the additional endings but in this case the book really is the better medium IMHO

Out of the topic - I love that movie too, but never heard about that book. I'll try to look for it. Thanks!

Re: Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

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Why is it your civic duty? What will you having this vaccine do for anybody but yourself?

Lowers the risk you are infected and infect other people and/or take a bed in a crowded hospital

...No it doesn't. It only "decreases the likeliness of symptoms". It doesn't affect transmission.
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