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>I am not sorry about people like you getting infected or hospitalized.

I was one of those people this time last year. No one was feeling sorry then either.

Don't worry I'll get a booster shot when it is due, but I've done my part. Please don't lump me in with the unvaxxed.

EDIT: to be clear, i was just an innocent bystander who caught covid-19 early on while no one could possibly believe i was having the symptoms that we are all so deathly afraid of now. i survived, i have this persistent feeling of weirdness and random twinges of pains, but i survived it without a vaccine. i don't know what a vaccine is going to do for me (at this junction in time, maybe T+12 months will be different lets see what the science says)




> don't know what a vaccine is going to do for me (at this junction in time, maybe T+12 months will be different lets see what the science says)

We do know what a vaccine does, especially in the case of viral vectors(they’ve been around for decades). What specifically seems to be unknown?


Can you provide a reference to a single viral vector vaccine with widespread usage prior to this year?


I’m talking about viral vector as a delivery method. And you’re talking about testing a COVID-19 vaccine, right? Of course there’s none. But there’s no way to do a long-term testing of a particular COVID-19 vaccine. By the time you finish the study it’s going to be too late. So if someone says “But a vaccine hasn’t been studied long enough!” they just propose to not vaccinate at all and rely on lockdowns/post-illness immunity. However, we’ve got sufficient knowledge about the mechanism of the used vaccines to say they’re sufficiently safe.


I'm not talking about just COVID-19 vaccines, I am talking about any vaccine that uses viral vector as a delivery method.


Obviously he was referring to people with the possibility of having the vaccine which deliberately reject it, not people who couldn't have it.




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