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You're getting downvoted but I do believe you're correct. I'm a healthy 21 year old, please govt., give my vaccine to other countries. I will take it if offered, but I'd prefer to give it to those who really need it all things considered. Let me get the vaccine when others are safe.

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Your being vaccinated is important for protecting those who can’t be vaccinated. Plus, what’s most likely to drive governments to exports of vaccines is hitting/exceeding their own vaccination targets. The most effective way to lobby for exports is to get vaccinated.

Well said. Getting vaccinated when you're technically low risk may seem selfish, but it still benefits others. It would be politically untenable for the US to give away its remaining doses until a substantial portion of its own population is vaccinated. Whether that's right or wrong, the faster we get there, the better.

Exactly. I have a friend whose kids all share a condition where vaccines don't work well on them. For them to be safe, we need herd immunity. Successful elimination of the disease here makes it easier to turn toward helping others.

Your altruism is laudable but don't think this can't hurt you. I know a healthy, athletic 25 year old who has needed an inhaler every day for the last year because of her moderate, non-hospitalized Covid case. Her lung damage will probably not heal any further at this point.

I would get vaccinated ASAP. You're as deserving as anyone else. You don't want to risk spending the rest of your life with impaired breathing.

I know a guy that caught it bad, he was less than 50 years old. Almost died, like really, he would have died but they brought him back. He is doing better, but is far from completely recovered.

I know other people who treat this like some kind of joke. You just don't know how bad you might react to it.

I am most worried about the long term effects. If you die, that's one thing, but having lingering after-effects would really suck.

It’s not going to happen. That’s not the way that distribution works at scale. Just like the “kids are starving in $country/continent” lines that were often said when I was a kid, it’s horrible and I wish it wasn’t true but whether I clean my plate or not has little to do to help their situation. Whether you personally take a vaccine dose or a tax credit or whatever that you quality for, it has been allocated and will not be given to anyone else.

I am confident that HN crowd has heard about graph theory. We try to deactivate a network, we care firstly for the nodes of high connectivity to kill the virus transmission network.

Vaccinating a grandpa helps the grandpa. Vaccinating a super social young person helps everybody else.

I'm not allowed to be super social by law. I've seen about five people in a year. If I'm going to be forced into depression then it might as well be for a good reason.

You seem to have misunderstood my point. If you are offered a vaccine, take it immediately.

The point was that 100% of the USA could be vaccinated today, and the USA will not be done with covid.

Far more people in poorer countries will die from the economic consequences of lockdowns and travel restrictions than the disease. Decisions that were neither inevitable nor necessary will lower the opportunities for people to double their incomes from $1-$5/day for at least the next decade.

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