That line of reasoning applies also to simply getting out of bed in the morning, or risking COVID illness without the proven safety benefits of the vaccines, both of which have known long-term side-effects. Whereas, if you are healthy, the vaccine has been abundantly proven to statistically make you more healthy, so what “trade-off” are you talking about?
>Whereas, if you are healthy, the vaccine has been abundantly proven to statistically make you more healthy
This is emphatically false. Immunity to a specific virus does not make a person healthier and the vaccines do have a documented risk of side effects, in addition to rapidly mounting evidence of poor efficacy.
People seem to be worshipping these vaccines as some sort of mystical religious artifacts at this point.
The vaccines do not come without a cost. This is a dangerous myth, even if you think the risks are low.
If a mystical religious artifact magically appeared that was measured to statistically make me less likely to fall sick, I might go worship there too. That is sort of the point of science: finding whatever works best, whether that be my amulet, president Trump, or some chemical mixture. My definition of healthy is “less likely to become ill”. So far, and looking past any rhetoric, I have yet to find a source that shows vaccination to be more likely to cause illness, usually being a couple orders of magnitude safer. Do you have a source for me?
Yes, but everything has a cost. That isn’t a myth, just economics. That doesn’t mean costs are bad.
That's a contrived definition of "healthier". In any case
>I might go worship there too
Therein lies the issue. Worship of science is a vehicle for dogma. Even if the worship is implicit. Science is not beyond reproach, and to presume that laymen are unable to notice inconsistencies or holes in official doctrine is no better than forbidding peasants from reading or interpreting scripture. The same forces are at work, at a time when covid literature is freely available, but only one consensus is socially, morally acceptable. The science is far from settled; it cannot be so quickly after development of a new and complex technology.
It took some 5 years before thalomide was found to cause birth defects. We just injected custom designed partial viral RNA into billions of people. To pretend vehemently that we've solved such a complex problem safely on the first try is hubris, and Pfizer et al are immune from legal liability, as negotiated with the US government.
You think only tobacco and petroleum companies are capable of manipulating data and publishing misleading literature in pursuit of profits? They don't need to outright lie, just gradually massage their models and constantly adjust, and look at that, 2 years into this virus 2 weeks has turned, unironically, into 3 booster shots. There's no reason to blindly trust that these vaccines are safe long term. They'd have a tough time getting approved at all without emergency authorization given the current known side effects.
Nobody thinks Pandemic+Covid shots are better than no Pandemic+no shots. You got to weigh the hypothetical risk of the vaccine with the reported risk of Covid death.
People take this decision thinking it's personal but it's not, it affects many others. Your 'personal' decision to assert medical sovereignty could kill another.
