I have not and don't plan to get the vaccine at this point.
Two in my household got the Corona around Christmas; my 19 year old son and my wife (49). Both had mild head cold like symptoms and fatigue and lost sense of smell. Neither had any serious symptoms (like trouble breathing) but they are both healthy folks with no other mitigating factors so we were not overly concerned and they never really got that sick. The other three in our house (we all spent the 2-weeks together at home) did not get it. That was me, my other 19 year old son (twin) and 17 year old son.
We were on top of each other for 2 weeks and three (of 5)of us did not get it. I don't know if we have good immune systems, or already had it and didn't know it, or it just wasn't that contagious.
My son (19) who brought it into the house is very social and active, a college student, and NON protocol following, so we were not all that surprised when HE came down with it. His initial symptoms were so mild, we didn't think it was Corona and had him tested because we had planned to travel to elderly grandparents. (Ruined our Christmas family travel plans though)
I had a flu shot only once in my life - about 5 years ago, as a requirement for doing contracting work in a hospital. I have not had the flu in 15+ years and maybe only twice in my life so I feel my risk factors are not that high.
I have friends on both sides of the vaccine argument and those leaning a little more....left or liberal get angry when I say I don't plan to get it. They say "why would you not?" And I say why should I? I am not careless and I follow protocols, but I also am not hiding in a bunker until "its over" either.
I believe the cure (or more accurately the response) was worse than the disease in this country. It certainly was for me. I am a self employed small business owner, which I started 20 years ago, and have been in the same industry since 1989 and we barely survived the Covid lockdown cure this past year. We are still in recovery mode.
The long term effects of the response to Covid are going to be far worse than the disease itself. (Easy for me to say, I didn't lose a close family or friend to it) But we wrecked the strongest economy we ever had and altered the way we do just about everything. The lockdown protocols were a joke. You can't go to a restaurant that seats 20 but you can go into Home Depot with 400 people? You can walk into Starbucks with 25 people in line, but you can't go into a diner with 10 people in it? Mom & Pop shops can't open their businesses, but Walmart and the big grocery stores can have mobs of people in them? That's a friggin joke. None of it made any sense. I am a law abiding conformist citizen and I can comply within reason. But I just dont' think there was much real "reason" being applied
The public schools are now a bigger joke and disaster than they were before. THe communist teacher unions RUN the schools and their interests are NOT the education of the students. My dad was a career public school teacher and he would agree with this. The remote learning bullshit they have been doing for the past year is a total joke. Should have just canceled school for a year and NOT paid any of the teachers and administrators and facilities and bus drivers and support, etc, etc, etc,. Save the counties billions of dollars and I'd bet about 95% of all those staff would have felt it was safe to go back to school after a couple months.
Whoops.....fell onto my soap box again. Sorry for the rant.So um....No, I am not planning on getting the vaccine at this point. I am not really anti-vaccine but based on my personal factors I don't see the need (for me)
And I don't own a 5g phone yet, so they got to come up with another way to track me
