- The rushed nature of the vaccines. “Fastest approved vaccine” is not re-assuring if you don’t understand what trade was made for that accelerated timeline.
- “I’ll just stay isolated until it dies off”
- “I don’t trust western medicine”
- “I don’t trust the FDA or big pharma”
- “I don’t care if I get covid . People at risk can take the vaccine”
Don’t forget how many people don’t even take the flu shot.
The specifics of the Moderna vaccine took 2 days once they had the genome of the virus. But there was an awful lot of work done before then.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7492076/moderna-coronavirus-vacci...
From there, the process of developing the vaccine is training the body to fight blobs that function like COVID does.
The first shot introduces some COVID-shaped blobs, and your body develops some antibody factories to fight them, and keeps some around just in case the scary blobs come back.
The second shot introduces some more blobs, and your body reacts by producing even more antibody factories. “Trick me twice, shame on me”, in nature.
The hard work was building the database. Which was only possible because of the genome project and cell project.
- "These are the first mRNA vaccines ever released. We don't yet know the long term effects."
It ignores all of the hard work over literal decades that has gone into the work of developing mRNA-based medicine (gRPC and protobufs), which was developed literally for situations like Covid-19 (polyglot services communicating over network interfaces).
Yes, mRNA is basically magic from a distance. So is all of modern technology. But it’s built on and hardened by iterative experiments, not conjured from thin air.
That's a funny comparison from a UK perspective where the flu shot isn't even offered to the general population (only the elderly, vulnerable or those whose work in healthcare or similar). I'd say there is much more reason to take the COVID vaccine than the flu shot.
Most companies offer the flu jab to their employees for free, and otherwise it's like a tenner to save yourself the risk of 2/3 days of feeling horrible.
That said, I don’t get the flu every year (iirc, I’ve had it twice in the past 20 years).