I was never very afraid of it — for myself, at least. I’m under 60 and fairly healthy, so the risk was low. Of course I worried about friends and relatives who were at higher risk.
But now I’ve been vaccinated and … I just had it myself.
My wife and I attended an event where several people caught it. Mrs. Crowhill had a fever and some flu symptoms. Not a bad case, but enough that she was under the weather for a few days. My symptoms were slim to none — and nothing worse than I often get simply from mild sinus issues. (I can feel like I’m sick for days after flying in an airplane — just from the change in pressure.)
So now we’re both vaccinated and both have natural immunity. Can’t get much better than that.
I’m not afraid of it but feel appropriate precautions need to be taken. Albeit I’ve not had it myself and have been vaccinated, my most significant concern is potentially spreading it to others who could have severe or life-threatening reactions. Unfortunately, I’ve seen up close the devastation this virus can cause. Some I know have died, some hospitalized in ICU, another survived but is currently bedridden and likely to be on oxygen for remainder of their life.
I’m marginally in the high risk group, but I was never really afraid because I don’t have a lot of close contact with people. I was letting the vaccine slide until a colleague signed me up for it. After that first jab I did feel very tired, but that could have been due to the hot weather at the time or also a lack of sleep on the previous night. But I did definitely get a sample of it after the second jab. Not only chills and fever for a few hours, but that horrible fatigue for about a day. I didn’t wanna do nuthin’! That is extremely unusual for me. Anyway, I am glad I got vaccinated and cannot comprehend how anyone who has easy access to the vaccine doesn’t get. It is not only prudent, but also a civic duty.
QUOTE: Anyway, I am glad I got vaccinated and cannot comprehend how anyone who has easy access to the vaccine doesn’t get. It is not only prudent, but also a civic duty.
It’s likely no one would need to be afraid if the general public consistently followed recommended guidelines….washing hands, social distancing, masks and getting vaccinated. I suspect that if most had done that, we might be on the downside of this pandemic. Yet, because enough still believe this is a hoax, want to be a “Karen” or just don’t care about themselves or anyone…we are once again experiencing rising Covid rates, hospitalizations and deaths. We even have politicians creating laws that prevent local entities from instituting potentially helpful measures. We’ve seen this movie before and we know it ends the same way each time. How many more have to die or become grievously ill before we “collectively” get on board with vaccines and safety guidelines?
If you can’t comprehend how anyone with easy access to the vaccine hasn’t received it, you’re living in a bubble.
Nonsense. I know the reasons that they give, and they are all very bad ones. To discern poor reasoning isn’t to live in a bubble.
Crowhill seems to be falling prey to a goofy bothsideism. On this view, both sides on a given issue are legitimate and need to be equally represented, however grotesquely irrational one of those sides may be.
I agree. Yet, isn’t this exchange a microcosm of what typically happens?
Despite already having a defined opinion, I wonder what would happen if both sides handled the exchange differently by first asking questions of the other about their context, views and/or motives? Why do they see it that way? What evidence supports their position? What caused them or others like them to develop such a perspective? In the end, they still might disagree but there’s a potential for greater understanding and tolerance for holding a different position.
If you think “all” the reasons are very bad ones, or that you are able to reason about medical things better than all the doctors, PhD evolutionary biologists, vaccine and immunology experts, etc., who say that some people might be better off not getting the vaccine, then you are definitely in a bubble.
Please observe that I spoke of “easy access to the vaccine,” which to any reasonable person would imply an absence of obstacles, including medical ones as well as others. That would allow for exceptional cases. The accusation that I am in a bubble is accordingly ridiculous, as it blatantly exhibits yet another prevailing fallacy in our time, namely that one may not make rough generalizations.
QUOTE: Anyway, I am glad I got vaccinated and cannot comprehend how anyone who has easy access to the vaccine doesn’t get. It is not only prudent, but also a civic duty.
One man’s message to those who activity resist vaccination. Warning…harsh language.
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So very sad. How many more skeptics have to die and potentially influence others to follow?
Mark Valentine said in an interview that his brother (conservative talk show host Phil Valentine) didn’t like thinking that other people didn’t get vaccinated because of his stance. “He recognizes now that him not getting the vaccination has probably caused a bunch of other people not to get vaccinated,” he said in a July 26 interview. “And that he regrets.” At the time, Mark Valentine said that if his brother could go back in time, “his cavalier attitude wouldn’t have been what it was and he would have gotten vaccinated and encouraged everybody to get vaccinated.”
Phil publicly stated he believed his personal odds of dying from Covid-19 were “probably way less than one percent”.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/568899-conservative-radio-host-who-regretted-vaccine-skepticism-dies-of-covid-19