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Originally Posted by Pierre
It transpired that it was all about personal choice and personal safety.
Not everyone needed the vaccine, if you were fit and healthy and under 50-60 years of age you most likely didn't need it and you had to weigh up the risks of, what was then, an under tested vaccine v's the risks of fighting it off yourself.
I took the vaccine, not for wider society, but because I wanted to travel abroad to play golf. I was also mid-fifties, not unfit but could be fitter etc.
There was no way I was going have my kids vaccinated, as they didn't need it.
As it turned out the vaccines didn't stop you from getting COVID, didn't stop you from spreading COVID and future strains were milder so you probably didn't need it for them.
There was a claim that the vaccines made you "less ill" but there was no way to verify that, as I say, future strains were milder.
So to chastise someone for not getting the vaccine, comes across as a bit churlish.
If you got vaccinated good for you but no one else owes you that they should do it.
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That right there is the problem. People not understanding how all vaccines work. They are not cures, they don't stop you from ever getting the virus, whether its covid Polio, Hep B, Flu etc.
They provide your body with the tools to create antibodies. This then allows your body to fight off whatever it is. Either with zero symptoms or very minimal symptoms. It also great reduces your chances of passing said virus to others.
A normal healthy immune system in many cases will fight off common viruses and you never notice. For example with my being a transplant recipient I have a weakened immune system. There is a virus called CMV that most of the world's population have and its relatively simple and our bodies fight it off without a sweat. However I got it in October last year and was in hospital 4 days because my immune system struggled to cope.
Had it been a much more infectious and worse illness it could have been much worse. That's why there are vaccines for certain viruses as it gives our bodies the extra help it needs to protect itself.