Will You Take The Covid Vaccine?

[WilliamG]

Will take it when available (looks like spring some time). Most experts say the Oxford-Astrazeneca will be the most available for the world due to ease of transportation and price.

 

[teddybaerli1]

Whenever I can get it for my age I will gladly take it because I totally trust in our mecical sciences and all tests which have been previously made. I will be happy when I can get that wonderful vaccine! Hopefully soon!

 

[fullpak]

without one scintilla of hesitation.....got the first shot already

 

[Industrialsize]

Chris Rock on the Covid Vaccine.
View attachment 9zOvwprkp4ZjuiR8.mp4

 

[DDawg]

Had my first jab just over a week ago. I work for an emergency service (front line for want of a better term). I’ve seen firsthand how devastating covid can be! Anyway, for me it was painless apart from the next day when my upper arm was a bit sore, lasted only a day or two. I haven’t grown a second yet either!

 

[Ldn]

Had my first jab just over a week ago. I work for an emergency service (front line for want of a better term).

Thank you for what you do

 

[Industrialsize]

 

[WidgeonSF]

Already had both. I’m in healthcare. First day after the second shot was rough. Felt like I got body slammed by a gorilla. Other than that it’s been fine. Everyone that I work with had similar experiences. We all had Pfizer.

 

[EagleCowboy]

Absolutely. Just as soon as smoking, drinking, or eating junk food become out-of-control pandemics that threaten to overwhelm the healthcare system.

Dude! What planet do you live on?? That's been happening for the last 50 years!!
Have ya not seen all the lung cancer asthmatics, alcoholics, and morbidly obese people in WalMart lately?? And they all got Dr.s appointments.

 

[EagleCowboy]

Setting aside the effects of "second hand smoke" which everyone agrees requires EXTENDED exposure from very close contact,

This is bullshit right there. There are many of us out here in the real world that are highly allergic to "second hand smoke". 5 seconds is all we need to be in trouble from it, and we don't have to be in close contact. Just in the same room. And there are millions of us. But I don't see YOU doing anything about it besides expounding on something you clearly know nothing about. .

 

[EagleCowboy]

Did you know that for more than a DECADE, scientists have been working on the new technology utilized in this vaccine? They started working on it as a vaccine for SARS, another corona-virus. They have been perfecting the technology for an mRNA vaccine. Now they have achieved it. This work did not start with the appearance of COVID-19 and has been in the works for years.
Vaccines 101: A typical vaccine utilizes a piece of the virus or an "attenuated" or non- infectious virus to trick the body into mounting an immune response and create ant-bodies.
mRNA vaccines are entirely different. They do not utilize any part of the virus at all. Think of mRNA as pieces of computer code that your body can read. They have created a piece of code(mRNA) that tricks the body into creating the spike protein that COVID uses to attach to its host and cause infection. It only creates the spike, which is harmless. The body then mounts an immune response against this "spike", which the body recognizes as foreign, and makes anti-bodies against the spike. Now, when the actual Sars-Cov2 virus is introduced into the host, the anti-bodies against the "spikes" will now render the virus harmless.

Then by your definition there, it cannot be a vaccine. It is a medical device.

 

[EagleCowboy]

That’s because this is a new technology. Please read the following two articles:
How Safe Are the mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines? We Asked the Experts.

COVID-19 vaccines: The new technology that made them possible | Live Science

This is funny because even the "experts" don't know. Find for us, right now, what the 20 year long term proven effects of that vaccine is.

 

[BussyPhilipps]

This is funny because even the "experts" don't know. Find for us, right now, what the 20 year long term proven effects of that vaccine is.

It’s true that we don’t know the long-term effects, but you could say that for many vaccines and medications, both life-saving and otherwise. Humans do lots of things that we don’t know the long-term effects for. Many people on this site probably take supplements and steroids/PEDs. Those aren’t even FDA regulated. I’d rather take a vaccine that’s gotten emergency authorization from the FDA than something that isn’t FDA regulated. It’s worth the risk, imo. I’ll take the probably low risk of long-term side effects over the risk of getting a bad case of COVID. I have no idea how my body would react to getting COVID. Outcomes are extremely variable. Some people who should be at increased risk of severe illness end up being fine while other people who are seemingly healthy with no pre-existing conditions have to be hospitalized or even die.

 

[dreamer20]

More vaccine good news: Feb. 2, 2021 Article Excerpts
Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine is 91% effective, researchers say

Researchers say based on their trial, which involved about 20,000 people in Russia last fall, the vaccine is about 91% effective and that the shot also appeared to prevent people from becoming severely ill with COVID-19. The study was published online Tuesday in the journal, Lancet.

The Russian vaccine uses a modified version of the common cold-causing adenovirus to carry genes for the spike protein in the coronavirus as a way to prime the body to react if COVID-19 comes along. That’s a similar technology to the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. But unlike that two-dose vaccine, the Russians used a slightly different adenovirus for the second booster shot. “This aims to drive higher immune responses to the target 'spike' by using two slightly different jabs,” said Alexander Edwards, an associate professor in biomedical technology at Britain’s University of Reading. He said if you have two identical shots, it’s possible the immune system doesn’t get as big a boost from the second injection.

Some experts say this approach may explain why the Russian vaccine seems to have produced a better immune response than the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has a reported efficacy rate of about 60 to 70%.

 

[BussyPhilipps]

More vaccine good news: Feb. 2, 2021 Article Excerpts
Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine is 91% effective, researchers say

Researchers say based on their trial, which involved about 20,000 people in Russia last fall, the vaccine is about 91% effective and that the shot also appeared to prevent people from becoming severely ill with COVID-19. The study was published online Tuesday in the journal, Lancet.

The Russian vaccine uses a modified version of the common cold-causing adenovirus to carry genes for the spike protein in the coronavirus as a way to prime the body to react if COVID-19 comes along. That’s a similar technology to the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. But unlike that two-dose vaccine, the Russians used a slightly different adenovirus for the second booster shot. “This aims to drive higher immune responses to the target 'spike' by using two slightly different jabs,” said Alexander Edwards, an associate professor in biomedical technology at Britain’s University of Reading. He said if you have two identical shots, it’s possible the immune system doesn’t get as big a boost from the second injection.

Some experts say this approach may explain why the Russian vaccine seems to have produced a better immune response than the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has a reported efficacy rate of about 60 to 70%.

I’m skeptical of anything that comes out of Russia without it being independently verified by non Russian researchers/scientists, so we shall see. Sounds promising tho

 

[BussyPhilipps]

without one scintilla of hesitation.....got the first shot already

I see that you’re in Syracuse, NY, which is only a couple of hours from me. May I ask where you got it? My parents are trying to get it and they’re both over 65 with pre-existing conditions. In fact, my mom recently finished radiation for breast cancer. I’m assuming you’re a healthcare worker and that’s how you got it so early?

 

[ActionBuddy]

Dude! What planet do you live on?? That's been happening for the last 50 years!!
Have ya not seen all the lung cancer asthmatics, alcoholics, and morbidly obese people in Walmart lately?? And they all got Dr.s appointments.

What is a "Walmart"?

A/B

 

[Ldn]

I’m skeptical of anything that comes out of Russia without it being independently verified by non Russian researchers/scientists, so we shall see. Sounds promising tho

It could be 100% effective and I wouldn't risk a Russian vaccine

 

[BussyPhilipps]

It could be 100% effective and I wouldn't risk a Russian vaccine

I would take it if trials are done by regulatory bodies outside of Russia (such as the FDA) and it’s proven to be effective with no major side effects, but only then.

 

[Klingsor]

Dude! What planet do you live on?? That's been happening for the last 50 years!!
Have ya not seen all the lung cancer asthmatics, alcoholics, and morbidly obese people in WalMart lately?? And they all got Dr.s appointments.

You're talking about gradually worsening health issues over the last fifty years. Covid-19 has wreaked all its havoc in *one* year. If it were to continue at that rate, how many more years could we go on?