Originally posted by: Inigo Montoya
Well done, you are walking the talk. It's a personal decision you should always take with advice from a professional with informed consent.
I wish you well in your health, seriously. I have no issue with people protecting themselves with vaccines as long as they are safe and effective. I just don't agree with force and mandates when the item is not long term fully tested and is still experimental and still after half a decade under EUA.
You do know that the EUA version is not produced the same as the 'tested' version, right? This discounts any 'safe and effective' label they might give the product.
The necessity for what you call "force and mandates" is that vaccines don't stop contagious diseases until a certain percentage of the population is inoculated. For covid, that had to be a pretty high percentage due to the method of transmission.
So those making decisions had to evaluate the risk factor. How harmful was the vaccine (side effects, etc.)? Turned out there were a grand total of two deaths nationwide from reactions to the vaccine. And YES, all that was monitored before people were "forced" to get the vaccine.
Of course, your story about that is bull pucky anyway...no one HAD to get the vaccine. It was often a condition of continued employment, but there's nothing new about that, especially for people who work among many others. And yeah, I know that social responsibility is just liberal code for SOOOOOOOOCIALISM. Sure.