But that has to be weighed against the very real and damaging consequences of getting ACTUAL COVID. 600,000+ people DEAD
This is the way I’ve been thinking about this since fucking March 2020 and I was at first (and still slightly) frustrated at how long the clinical trials worked to demonstrate safety. I would’ve rolled the dice on it the moment I could get my hands on it, because we already knew that mRNA vaccines are effective and safe, we just needed to test this particular one. I would’ve gladly taken the risks of an untested thing that’s very similar to things that have all been tested and been fine than the risks of getting covid.
The vaccine could cause 1/1000 people’s heads to spontaneously explode upon injection, and you’d still be better off getting the vaccine, because more than 1/1000 Americans has already died of covid. Probably 1/500 now. And that’s just looking at deaths, ignoring the long term disabilities.
This is the way I’ve been thinking about this since fucking March 2020 and I was at first (and still slightly) frustrated at how long the clinical trials worked to demonstrate safety. I would’ve rolled the dice on it the moment I could get my hands on it, because we already knew that mRNA vaccines are effective and safe, we just needed to test this particular one. I would’ve gladly taken the risks of an untested thing that’s very similar to things that have all been tested and been fine than the risks of getting covid.
The vaccine could cause 1/1000 people’s heads to spontaneously explode upon injection, and you’d still be better off getting the vaccine, because more than 1/1000 Americans has already died of covid. Probably 1/500 now. And that’s just looking at deaths, ignoring the long term disabilities.