What are your views on vaccines?
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I think the recent fiascos with the Covid vaccine has done immeasurable damage to the reputation of vaccines overall.
The endless blatherings based on nothing, the imposition of vaccine requirements even before the vaccine was fully approved, and the ongoing questions about side effects coupled with the sense that severe side effects were being covered up, seems to have done a lot of damage.
I remember when the official story was "we don't know how long natural immunity lasts so even if you've had it you should still get the vaccine" back when we didn't know how long vaccine-induced immunity might last or what side effects might come with the vaccine. I'm not a microbiologist but reasoning tells me that my body seeing the actual virus and successfully fighting it off is likely to result in something more useful to me than my body being tricked into producing something that looks mostly like one specific part of the virus and learning to fight that off.
Now Covid seems to be little more than a cold in a large majority of people but it's just one more thing to have stuck in you, one more thing that might bring unwanted side effects. But the damage to the reputation of "the medical establishment" will probably see takeup of other vaccinations continue to fall.
I've never been hostile to vaccinations but following the farce that was official handling of Covid I'm much more hesitant to take vaccines now.
The endless blatherings based on nothing, the imposition of vaccine requirements even before the vaccine was fully approved, and the ongoing questions about side effects coupled with the sense that severe side effects were being covered up, seems to have done a lot of damage.
I remember when the official story was "we don't know how long natural immunity lasts so even if you've had it you should still get the vaccine" back when we didn't know how long vaccine-induced immunity might last or what side effects might come with the vaccine. I'm not a microbiologist but reasoning tells me that my body seeing the actual virus and successfully fighting it off is likely to result in something more useful to me than my body being tricked into producing something that looks mostly like one specific part of the virus and learning to fight that off.
Now Covid seems to be little more than a cold in a large majority of people but it's just one more thing to have stuck in you, one more thing that might bring unwanted side effects. But the damage to the reputation of "the medical establishment" will probably see takeup of other vaccinations continue to fall.
I've never been hostile to vaccinations but following the farce that was official handling of Covid I'm much more hesitant to take vaccines now.
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I'm a pureblood myself, haven't had a vaccine in quite a bit longer than you've been alive.
But I don't advocate that for anyone else, I don't have anything against vaccines, just prefer not to use them myself.
But I do question the bombardment of very young children with so many at once before their immune systems even begin to fully develop for themselves, I wonder at the wisdom of this.
Above all, I just want everyone to think about it for themselves and not just blindly let some 'authority' do their thinking for them so they don't have to.
That's my view on the matter.
But I don't advocate that for anyone else, I don't have anything against vaccines, just prefer not to use them myself.
But I do question the bombardment of very young children with so many at once before their immune systems even begin to fully develop for themselves, I wonder at the wisdom of this.
Above all, I just want everyone to think about it for themselves and not just blindly let some 'authority' do their thinking for them so they don't have to.
That's my view on the matter.