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Example A.
A ton of waffle, completely ignoring the issues raised in the post replied to.
I wasn't ignoring it, I just expanded on it. It is all a matter of risk management. Everything has risk associated with it's use, you can even kill yourself drinking too much water. There is an acceptable level of risk when it comes to medicines, to all vaccines. You don't really need to acknowledge that there are risks, they are printed on the side of the box, in the information online. When you talk about tens of millions of people or even billions, there is always going to be some that have an adverse effect.
The reason I was hesitant before the delta variant was because there were more adverse effects with the covid vaccines than existed with all other vaccines prior to the covid vaccines combined, and the testing for the vaccine was rushed. Those that mocked my hesitancy saying it went through an independent trial, blah, blah, a whistleblower came out recently to say the trial was a complete sham for the Pfizer vaccine and the AZ wasn't even sufficient enough to pick up a serious clotting side-effect. It is what happens when you rush vaccines.
After the delta variant though, the risks of covid outweighed the other risks to myself, there were enough people vaccinated by then that we got some worthwhile vaccination data. I am in a higher risk group though, if I was young with no comorbidities and my vitamin d levels were fine, I wouldn't have got the vaccine and I think the persecution of unvaccinated is moronic given vaccinated people can spread covid.
The problem is our one shoe fits all policy. Taking the risk with the vaccine when you are young and have no comorbidities and aren't vitamin d deficient means you are taking on those risks when the possible threat from catching covid for people in that group is very low. You shouldn't really need to take on that risk unless it is going to protect your health or the community needs it for herd immunity.
I think the manner in which our government handled the pandemic and communicated left a lot to be desired, it fostered a lot of distrust in both the government and health services. That is unfortunate.
The group we really needed to look after was that portion of the community that is vulnerable, we didn't even really make a good fist of doing that.