Poll of the Day > I don't understand vaccine hesitancy.

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Like, its just a vaccine.

Wtf is the problem?

There are next too no side effects for the vaccines, and if there are, then you have more of a chance that you'll die in a car accident or in an act of gun violence then you will get one of these side effects.

So what's the deal?


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it's rushed through fda. no long term effects are known
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it's because orange man said they were bad

even though he got one himself

orange man also said to inject clorox bleach

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

it's rushed through fda. no long term effects are known

We know the long term effects of Covid-19. Ill take the vaccine plz.

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helIy posted...

it's because orange man said they were bad

even though he got one himself

orange man also said to inject clorox bleach

people also said they weren't going to take the vaccine because trump had a hand in rushing it out.... that sure as hell didn't stop them
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

people also said they weren't going to take the vaccine because trump had a hand in rushing it out.... that sure as hell didn't stop them

He took credit like the lazy kid in a class project. He didnt have anything to do with it. The only people who think that are Trumpsters.

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It's been happening all throughout the history of vaccines. Humankind didn't learn... so history's repeating itself.

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Not wanting the vaccine is almost as dumb as not being able to navigate smartphone settings

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

people also said they weren't going to take the vaccine because trump had a hand in rushing it out.... that sure as hell didn't stop them

yeah, except he really didn't though.

project warp speed, as it turned out, didn't actually help the vaccines get developed.

it mostly just bought vaccines that were already in development, and would have already been completed regardless.

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The Covid vaccines have been pushed out significantly faster than vaccines typically are, so I can understand some skepticism. I was also skeptical. The problem, however, is that none of these people are scientifically literate enough to actually do anything with their skepticism. If they were, they would investigate and find out that the accelerated timeline doesn't mean corners have been cut, it means steps were done in parallel that would normally be done in sequence, and that a lot of the most time-consuming parts of researching a new drug (finding trial participants, securing funding, waiting for the government to process their application for approval) have gone much faster than normal because of how high-profile Covid is.

All of the usual standards to which new drugs are held have been met, which should be enough to satisfy the skeptics, but because they've incoporated that skepticism too thoroughly into their personal identity to risk giving it up, they tell themselves that the occasional article about 1-in-a-million side effects is enough to count as "doing research."

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still don't have years of data from people who received the vaccine. that is the most important part.

there is still a chance to catch it regardless if you get the vaccine or not.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

still don't have years of data from people who received the vaccine. that is the most important part.

What, exactly, is your threshold for identifying "long-term effects"?

Krazy_Kirby posted...

there is still a chance to catch it regardless if you get the vaccine or not.

There is, but mortality is working out to be roughly 1000-fold lower for vaccinated people than unvaccinated, so I'd call that a success. Nothing's perfect, but that's pretty damn good.

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there is a chance, yes. it doesn't make you immune.

it gives your body the knowledge of how to fight the infection, like literally every single other vaccine.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

still don't have years of data from people who received the vaccine. that is the most important part.

there is still a chance to catch it regardless if you get the vaccine or not.

Hey everybody look

It's someone who has horrible opinions about public health measures, and is wholly unqualified, but thinks their opinion matters


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Clench281 posted...

Hey everybody look

It's someone who has horrible opinions about public health measures, and is wholly unqualified, but thinks their opinion matters

okay meathead
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My body is healthy enough to fight off vaccines. GOML.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

okay meathead

Must feel bad when a meathead knows so much better than you, huh

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Rapidly developed vaccine and the usual effect of media magnification$ whenever a tiny percentage of people suffer severe side-effects. Its not unusual that some people get hesitant, and then theres also the old factor of trypanophobia (fear of needle injections)

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I'm not sure he's capable of feeling bad about how little he knows, given that he seems completely unaware of it. Dunning-Kruger, ho!

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Darwin thinning the herd.

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