Me me me, I want to play along too!!
In all honesty I am early 30s, and every single person I spend the most time with is also not vaccinated. My girlfriend isnāt vaccinated. We are NOT anti-vax, we are totally open to getting the vaccine. I am ācollege-educatedā in the sciences as the Democrats like to say, and would also consider myself smarter than the average person (the same of which goes for most of my friend group).
Resp: Totally open? Under what conditions? When FDA approve all the vaccines? When there has been evidence that itās safe? When they start vaccinating kids without anyone dying? Wait another 18 years to see there arenāt any sequelae from the evil vaccine?
I try to stay open-minded, read studies and papers (granted a lot are on arxiv) and consider myself well-read on both sides of the argument.
Resp: Both sides eh? Go to āanyā icuās right now and see. There is your real world evidence. In our system, 30 icu beds taken by covid patients. 3 are vaccinated. The other 27, nope. Probably did their own research, and read their own journals and came to their own conclusions.
All of us who havenāt been infected want to get infected to achieve natural immunity due to the death rate. I myself have had likely delta-variant COVID recently.
Resp: Did you get tested? Donāt you want to know if youāre part of the solution by helping humanity to reach natural herd immunity? And prove to us how smart you really are?! I would love personally thank you for your sacrifice to get infected and better than humanity.
The fact is right now you can find arguments that are seemingly credible for both sides. When discussing natural immunity vs vaccine immunity the information gets even murkier.
Resp: Yes. And thatās how polio, smallpox and other childhood diseases are eliminated. And dumb people who brought some of these devastating disease back by being anti-vax.
So when it comes to a new class of vaccine that we largely do not have a lot of data on human results, the creator of the mRNA vaccine (albeit the very cooky type vector2 immediately thinks of when a person says they arenāt vaccinated) saying itās dangerous, the terrible media on both sides, among other things, itās my right to say: āI want to wait a little bit longer and make sure it is safe.ā Granted, the mRNA creator bit may be fake news, as I do not know all of his history.
Resp: Then take j&j, if you donāt trust new technology.
If you all want the type of people like me to get vaccinated, then do not use vector2 as your model for social interaction.
Resp: Who will you listen? Isnāt action speak louder than words? All the politicians who are pushing some of these narratives, are drum roll please, vaccinated! Those who did not, are dead.
Demonizing a group of people and being a prick only pushes them away. Stop making assumptions about how educated someone is, what their political background is, and which religion they consider to be apart of and treat them like an actual person that may be misinformed.
Resp: Yes. Amen. Let me embrace you my brudder. After I just get called to icu to intubate yet another patient, who probably will not make it. Oh, and no one told me he was covid positive, so I wasnāt able to grab by carefully stored away N95. I thought I would be retiring it, 9 months after vaccine is ready, but no, we are in the middle of another surge.
So let me wait another 5 days to embrace you, while I wonder if I would give it to my 8 patients today, 6 patients yesterday, 4 patients the day before that, 6 the day before that. And hoping that their loved ones wonāt get sick either. But you wouldnāt know nor care about that, since there are both sides of this argument right?
Please, please find me one practicing icu physician that support your view, so I will know how smart you really are.