I have a friend who is anti mRNA vaccines as they are so new.

Are they?

  • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    11 months ago

    Ok just going to make the counter argument if that’s ok?

    They are new compared to traditional vaccines like polio and smallpox

    Their view is that vaccines are now unnecessary because of herd immunity, (I’ve got them to concede that hospitals or the economy would have collapsed without vaccines), and that they are just being used up because govts signed contracts.

    Their view is that the side effects risk is now higher than the benefit.

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      11 months ago

      Anecdotal, I’ll admit, but I’ve had 6 shots now. And I plan on getting one every 6 months because I can’t take the risk of getting sick. The only side effects I’ve suffered is a sore arm for a day or so afterwards. The other side effect is that I haven’t gotten Covid yet, or if I did then it was so mild I didn’t notice most likely thanks to those vaccines.

      Your friends are being short sighted. mRNA vaccines have been around for a long time, almost but not quite as long as polio or small pox vaccines, but still a long time. The only thing that changed for Covid, if you take the time to research the vaccine, is that the message protein was changed. This protein can’t hurt you or give you Covid in any way. All it does is present a foreign protein for your immune system to begin fighting. For most people, they don’t even notice. Mostly because our immune system is fighting off something actually infectious pretty much every day, but you don’t get sick. These vaccines are a valuable tool in fighting infections, specifically because of the way new updates to the vaccines can be created quickly. To deny this is being willfully blind to their benefits.