Vaccination against COVID-19 has started in many countries these days. I think it's important that before you conclude anything about corona virus vaccines, you have clear and accurate information about them, in one place.
Factors influencing the decision to vaccinate
These are the factors that influence my thinking on this topic. Everyone is free to think for themselves, of course. This is given as an example of breaking down the problem into smaller parts.
1.The SARS-CoV-2 virus is now endemic, circulating at a level where it will not be able to be eradicated. Anyone who has no resistance will get it sooner or later.
2.Therapies developed by doctors and scientists from March until today, with bloody work, have significantly reduced mortality. But hospitals are still full. Queues are in front of the doors of clinics and hospitals all day and night. Even with that better therapy, people are dying on all sides. You don't have to believe anyone's word about it, all you have to do is count the death certificates or take a walk in front of the ambulance and see the lines with your own eyes.
It's never been like this with a single flu. This is not "just a cold," and it's not a naive thing. It is time to put those stories aside, because they are dangerous to health.
Scientific studies show that a large number of people, perhaps up to 20% of those who had significant symptoms, survive the disease, but with damage to the lungs, heart, kidneys, vascular system, and occasionally the brain. This is not the first time we have seen something like this: the current epidemic is very similar in many parameters to the Spanish flu epidemic that hit the world in 1918-1920. People with similar consequences as we see today buried neurological, cardiac, and pulmonary clinics until the 1950s. We can expect that those who get the virus will live shorter on average, be sicker, develop various chronic diseases earlier in life, and that we will generally have more disabled people over the next few decades.
In cases where problems with vaccines were detected, these problems occurred no later than three months after vaccination. In fact, 99% of the side effects of the vaccine occur either within a few days or a maximum of the first two weeks after vaccination (which is the period during which the body actually responds to the vaccine). Therefore, if the vaccine is given to tens of thousands of people, and if after three months there are no signs of major problems, the chances are very small that something very bad has been hidden.
RNA vaccines are a new technology. Personally, I am not afraid of them, since I know the technology by which they are made. But I realize that many people find it intimidating to take something new.
If you have been healthy so far, your choice is this: you can take the vaccine, and risk its side effects. Or you can wait to get the virus, and risk the side effects of the infection. There is no risk-free option. You can only choose which risk you want.
It is important to know that the absolutely worst vaccines we have ever had had effects that were nowhere near the effects of the virus. For it to make sense to choose a virus instead of a vaccine, SARS-CoV-2 vaccines would have to be thousands of times worse than the worst ever made in history.