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>Injecting something of unproven safety into my body is an entirely different matter.

Well I've got great news for you then! These vaccines will have completed trials for both safety and efficacy by the time they are approved.

>I'll be at home in bed, infecting nobody.

If that were possible, the flu would be eradicated already. You only develop symptoms for most transmissible respiratory infections after you've already been contagious for a day or so.

Maybe, if you're unlucky. In all likelihood, you'll be asymptomatic and spreading it to a bunch of other people without realizing it (which is most of the reason we're in this mess). Then those people do the same, get sick, and/or die.

You'd have probably infected people, including high-risk people, before you experienced symptoms. If you're vaccinated, you ~won't be infecting people.