Can anyone provide a reason for why someone should get their first covid shot?
Not being an expert in epidemiology with a life-time history of study and experience, I trust those we’ve appointed as the experts.
So I ask their reps whether I should. Those reps tell me I should, and that the risks are so low that driving to the pharmacy makes a difference in the risk as a whole, and that I can prevent Nana from getting a serious disease which is still affecting things as a local drop-in clinic was shut down over last weekend.
So I trust the accredited experts with a statistically mind-numbingly obvious question and do the thing with obscenely low risk that will prevent me from picking up a death sentence for my nana on the airplane if I ride a train to the airport and fly to go see her.
And, ultimately, the reason one should get their first covid shot is because they’re no longer an anti-vax tinfoil-hat weirdo? THat’ll be the number one, so I’m just playing the odds.
To summarize this: My grandmother had a 28,000x greater risk of dying from COVID than having ANY adverse reaction from the vaccine (not death – ANY reaction that would need medical attention). My mother (who turned into a huge conspiracy theory moron over the course of the pandemic) refused to get grandma vaccinated, which had us in front of a judge, where he respectfully read her the riot act about her risking her mother’s life over Facebook and Youtube.
Not being an expert in epidemiology with a life-time history of study and experience, I trust those we’ve appointed as the experts.
So I ask their reps whether I should. Those reps tell me I should, and that the risks are so low that driving to the pharmacy makes a difference in the risk as a whole, and that I can prevent Nana from getting a serious disease which is still affecting things as a local drop-in clinic was shut down over last weekend.
So I trust the accredited experts with a statistically mind-numbingly obvious question and do the thing with obscenely low risk that will prevent me from picking up a death sentence for my nana on the airplane if I ride a train to the airport and fly to go see her.
And, ultimately, the reason one should get their first covid shot is because they’re no longer an anti-vax tinfoil-hat weirdo? THat’ll be the number one, so I’m just playing the odds.
To summarize this: My grandmother had a 28,000x greater risk of dying from COVID than having ANY adverse reaction from the vaccine (not death – ANY reaction that would need medical attention). My mother (who turned into a huge conspiracy theory moron over the course of the pandemic) refused to get grandma vaccinated, which had us in front of a judge, where he respectfully read her the riot act about her risking her mother’s life over Facebook and Youtube.