From an high school classmate that just retired from being a doctor:

I had a long discussion with my doctor about getting the vaccine. I battled Covid for a month and was no day in the park but got through it so I wondered why was it so important to get the vaccination now.
I was told I was only thinking about myself. The major reason for being vaccinated wasn't for my protection but to keep me from passing the virus to someone's grandparents or anyone that could die from it.
Now I have completed my two doses and feel better for it.

Pfizer tested their vaccine on 43,000 people, Moderna 31,000, J&J 22,000. Nobody died as a result of the vaccine. Since then Globally almost 1 billion vaccines have been administered. Something like 1 in 100,000 had an adverse reaction which is about normal for vaccines. How many people do they need to test it on before ya'll stop saying it's basically untested?

Obesity is one of the biggest risk factors, it's strange that rather than put down the donut and lose some pounds people would take a basically untested shot.

we were gonna git the J&J 2morow then my wife read an article about it causing blood clots...stroke???...think we'll cancel...

My body, my choice.

Am I using that phrase right?

I have received shots 1 & 2 making me completely bulletproof.

So, if you had the plague and actually survived, why would you need a genetic mutation? That seems to be a quite difficult question for these people to answer.

Yes I had it, no I'm not getting poked.

What's an adverse reaction? 2 days of a headache?

Just because you don't die of COVID doesn't mean you got off without ill effects. 1 in 3 folks who got COVID are reporting lingering detrimental health effects from having had the virus. Anyway, whatever the numbers are, there's more to be concerned about than just dying of COVID.

There's the ability to freely travel, visit customers, help society reach heard immunity and get past this whole thing economically, no more lockdowns, lower chance of dying, lower chance of hospitalization, lower chance of long term health impacts, and the knowledge you have a smaller chance of passing it along to someone you love.

If my odds of dying from the vaccine and dying of COVID were exactly the same, I'd still get the vaccine because of all the other benefits to myself, my family, and society.

My body, my choice.

Am I using that phrase right?

From an high school classmate that just retired from being a doctor:

Pfizer tested their vaccine on 43,000 people, Moderna 31,000, J&J 22,000. Nobody died as a result of the vaccine. Since then Globally almost 1 billion vaccines have been administered. Something like 1 in 100,000 had an adverse reaction which is about normal for vaccines. How many people do they need to test it on before ya'll stop saying it's basically untested?

That's BS. Most people are asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms. So what's the difference in 2 days of a headache with COVID????