In the future can we agree not to demonize anybody who has any questions or hesitancy about mandating a brand new type of vaccine like this?
I’ll admit: I was hard in on the vaccine. Got it as early as possible, worked to get my friend and family access as soon as possible (by helping them find volunteer shifts at the injection sites).
I’m not saying I regret these decisions, but I certainly acknowledge that the skeptics were right to be skeptical.
I think that I made the right decision at the time, given the information we had available, but I’m not sure I would make the same decision set today.
Many years ago I suffered from a severe reaction from Cipro. No one believed me. It caused tendonitis and nerve issues. I went to Mayo clinic and they did not believe me. Today, the medication has a black box label and mentions nervous system damage and tendonitis. I still encounter physicians who DO NOT believe it and refuse to accept it. The issue is still widely under the radar and individuals suffering from side effects receive nearly 0 help from western medicine.
I know now that physicians mindset hasn't changed very much over the decades.
In 1800s a doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis, discovered that "childbed fever" was being caused by the lack of washing hands and instruments. It took the medical community 20 years to accept it as a truth and he was fired from his job at the hospital.
Skepticism is fine, but anytime I saw skeptics questioning the impacts of vaccines, they always conveniently left out the similar unknowns about long-term effects of Covid, as well as the very well-known short-term effects, including possible death, which were obviously orders of magnitude worse than short-term effects of the vaccine.
It seems to me like a lot of the skeptics were skeptical of everything involving COVID - of masks, of lockdowns, of vaccines, etc. Which tells me they weren't actually interested in the science or long-term risks or anything like that - they just didn't like anything that was out of the ordinary.
I’ll admit: I was hard in on the vaccine. Got it as early as possible, worked to get my friend and family access as soon as possible (by helping them find volunteer shifts at the injection sites).
I’m not saying I regret these decisions, but I certainly acknowledge that the skeptics were right to be skeptical.
I think that I made the right decision at the time, given the information we had available, but I’m not sure I would make the same decision set today.