You're "skeptical of people zealously pushing vaccines on-line", but what does that even mean in this case? If you did a ton of research about the vaccine, presumably concluding that the vaccine is a good thing and getting it is a good idea, then why would you have a problem with
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Replying to @NickDrisc0ll @cmuratori and
other people zealously promoting it? Especially when the effectiveness of a vaccine within a population is directly tied to how many people decide to go get it.
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Actually no, that was not my conclusion. My conclusion was that it was more likely to be safe than not, but I would have preferred to wait for several additional types of tests that were not performed prior to rollout...
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Replying to @cmuratori @NickDrisc0ll and
I elected to get the vaccine anyway because of the particular circumstances I was in. Had I been in different circumstances, I might have decided to self-isolate for another year instead, so that I could have more research on-hand.
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As an extra added confirmation that I think my reasoning was sound, one of the tests I wanted to see _was_ later done, and it _did_ come out the way I suspected it might, and wanted more investigation into. So I am very confident in my understanding of this situation.
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I, too, have complaints about people's behavior, but it has little to do with vaccination and more to do with mask wearing and other precautions, since those may be more important in the long run depending on what happens in the evolution of the virus.
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When you take a flight, do you research all the engineering of the aircraft so you can know every part that can fail, and how it can fail, and how that can potentially kill you? Or do you just trust that it's literally the safest form of travel?
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Replying to @IFollowTechStu1 @NickDrisc0ll and
Stop for a second and think about asking that question the first year airplanes were invented.
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Replying to @cmuratori @IFollowTechStu1 and
(Or in this case, I suppose, "the first year the public was allowed to fly in an airplane")
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But I get it. The vaccine has not had such extensive and rigorous testing. But we have come quite a ways with medicine. I don't think we are going to unleash something that kills a hundreds of millions of people.
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I don't think so either. But I think it's well within rational reasoning to say, "I'd like to see two or three years worth of testing before I want to do it myself". That seems _very_ rational to me, and one doesn't need to be a conspiracy theorist to think that way.
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Replying to @cmuratori @IFollowTechStu1 and
That decision does not occur in a vacuum though, delaying at scale means extra years of COVID spread, mutation, deaths, side-effects and pressure on society and medical services. Is the rational argument that we shouldn't have started vaccinations at all until "known safe"?
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Or the self-centered one where everyone else should vaccinate but not me until "known safe"? But for sure a lot of people seem to think like that, and it's not surprising, it is sensible in many contexts.
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