Quote Originally Posted by Neo Emolga View Post
Ooh nice, I was only one day off!

Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to getting this second shot done. I know it takes about another two weeks for it to fully take effect, but still, hearing what COVID-19 does to your lungs and seeing videos of the effects is just... erraghh. No, no way do I ever want to deal with that.

Still can't understand why there's still a lot of people out there that don't want to get vaccinated. My sister doesn't want it because she wants to wait until it's "perfected" but I'm like... why!? It's better than nothing right now. And then I have neighbors who have a daughter that's very anti-vax. It has never made any sense to me at all. It's like refusing to wear a coat when it's freezing outside because you believe somehow the coat will suffocate you... >.<
I literally got into an argument with someone about it this morning. A lot of the skepticism comes from the fact that people are concerned the vaccine was developed too quickly. Which normally would be somewhat of a valid concern. Vaccines normally take about 10-15 years to be properly developed give a take a little depending on how much funding the research gets. However, if there's already existing blueprints for a vaccine in the same family as the one being developed, it drastically reduces the time needed to develop it. It's why flu vaccines can be pushed out so quickly every year. The blueprint already exists they just have to alter it to accommodate the predicted strains. And COVID-19 actually falls under this case because there has already been research and development done for a vaccine in the coronavirus family thanks to SARS and MERS. That plus the considerable amount of funding the research has received has allowed them to push this stuff out SUPER quickly.

Additionally there is some skepticism around it being an mRNA vaccine since that's a relatively new type of vaccination. However, this is also rather dumb because this type of vaccine has been thoroughly researched for quite some time.

Thus in conclusion, there's no real reason to get it unless you just don't care about other people.