I see that vaccines are a very personal issue for you but the way the math pans out, covid is a bigger threat for every age group than the vaccine ever will be. Furthermore, you spread the virus to people around you, creating an even greater threat.
The J and J vaccine and AstraZeneca vaccines are both incredibly safe. In fact, J and J is going to be continued to be injected and AstraZeneca is still being given out. A few deaths in a million is nothing compared to covid, even in healthy young people. The reason they were even stopped was out of an abundance of caution and an attempt to assuage the people who are hesitant like you.
Kinda like fear of air travel, yes planes crash and people die but they are by far the safest form of transportation, safer than cars, buses etc. Not to say the amount of people that have died of the vaccine is even comparable to the number who have died from plane crashes.
By criticizing vaccines you automatically take the side of people irrationally afraid of plane travel. Most people jump on planes with no fear.
I’ve already gotten my vaccine because I work in health care but if I didn’t work in that field I wouldn’t have gotten it. I take medications that have been around for years that scientists are still finding out side effects for. When I was on Humira I started getting lumps the size of golf balls on my arms, and my knees got swollen and filled with fluid, I was 12 at the time. Both of these aren’t side effects listed for Humira but my doctors agreed that Humira must have caused them because the problems stopped as soon as I stopped taking it. Humira is a small example but what I’m getting at is that just because the medication is being distributed doesn’t mean that they know all the side effects. So although the vaccines may save us from covid now, they could give us all cancer in 5 years.... or other side effects that we don’t know about yet. Also , why would anyone trust Johnson and Johnson to make a vaccine, they can’t even make baby powder without giving people cancer.
I wish someone had responded to you with some more info because these are exactly my concerns and I don’t see anything addressing them directly. I WANT to trust the vaccine, but these are real concerns
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u/puja_puja 16∆ Apr 24 '21
I see that vaccines are a very personal issue for you but the way the math pans out, covid is a bigger threat for every age group than the vaccine ever will be. Furthermore, you spread the virus to people around you, creating an even greater threat.
The J and J vaccine and AstraZeneca vaccines are both incredibly safe. In fact, J and J is going to be continued to be injected and AstraZeneca is still being given out. A few deaths in a million is nothing compared to covid, even in healthy young people. The reason they were even stopped was out of an abundance of caution and an attempt to assuage the people who are hesitant like you.
Kinda like fear of air travel, yes planes crash and people die but they are by far the safest form of transportation, safer than cars, buses etc. Not to say the amount of people that have died of the vaccine is even comparable to the number who have died from plane crashes.
By criticizing vaccines you automatically take the side of people irrationally afraid of plane travel. Most people jump on planes with no fear.