Yes you can afford to be influenced. Are you so sure you opinion is worth influencing others it’s better risk dying of covid 19 than getting a vaccine until…. when.. until you change your mind? Are you really that proud of yourself in your effort to help people not trust anyone or anything and risk death? Jeepers. Wow 👏

Dear stranger. It’s disappointing reading a message that implies you and so many others worry about the long and short term impact vaccines have on others and ‘health consequences.” Do you know what foreign substance enters the body and has worse long and short health consequences? Diseases. Diseases do that. I’m glad covid 19 hasn’t hurt someone you love yet. Until then, look up measle, rubella, cancer, polio or any other disease symptoms and then tell me how scary vaccines are. Don’t let the sound of a loved one choking while face-timing with a ventilator be your wake-up call.

Good for you, Julinda! You may have saved someone’s life. My friend’s husband (healthy and 53) is currently in the hospital with Covid. My friend will not be convinced that this virus has a low risk of transmission and low risk of death as some have purported in this thread. It’s too bad that it takes some people to have a very close personal experience and potentially lose someone they love before they consider what could be done to reduce their risk.

I have to admit I felt a bit noble and brave when I got the shots! Like I do when donating blood – doing something that hurts a bit but helps others. I also think back to all the vaccines of the past, that have fully or mostly eradicated diseases – someone always has to be among the first.

Hysteria is powerful and can be used to move mountains. Again, one only needs to look to history for examples. Time is the only thing that will provide perspective. I imagine watching a Netflix documentary in about a decade.
With that said I follow all community health guidelines and will continue to do so for as long as suggested by the CDC and perhaps longer if I feel it appropriate to protect my health. However, individuals ignore these directions apparently not caring about the greater good but if I elect not to inject an experimental substance into my body, I am the one that needs to be influenced.

It would also be noble to stand by those that may suffer health consequences or death through their participation in research. Yet, the companies producing the vaccine have negotiated their way out of this risk and sadly there are numerous examples of government not filling the void.

Thank you