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<blockquote data-quote="davek" data-source="post: 3358904" data-attributes="member: 519"><p>I'll get the vaccine when available. With the other risks I have for Covid-19 the vaccine will be less risky than taking a chance on the consequences of getting the disease.</p><p>I remember the Swine flu problems in 1976. I hate shots. I also got the flu like clockwork every February for a long time. But after getting a bad case of flu with pneumonia in 2003 I started getting flu shots and the pneumonia vaccine. I went 14 years straight with no flu. Then I got the flu twice in one year, A then B, but I got over it in a few days and only felt bad about 2 of those days.</p><p>Vaccines are really miraculous medicine. Not a cure. Not a treatment. Prevention. And, apparently, some help reducing the severity of the disease if you come down with it anyway.</p><p>I was born just a few weeks after the polio vaccine became available. Few people alive remember how terrifying polio was for parents in the early 1950's. The kid that lived next door had braces on his legs and crutches from getting Polio in 1953. The polio vaccines put a stop to that. I had measles and chickenpox when I was a kid. Kids today don't have to go through that. People have forgotten how much damage measles can do.</p><p>If we get a vaccine quickly it will be based on new technology that doesn't use live or attenuated viruses for the vaccine. Whether or not that will be risk reduction is yet to be seen and I hope if there are any issues the trials will find them. I'll suck it up and take the risk though.</p><p>I seem to be rambling so I'll stop. It's just that a lot of the anti-vax bulls**t really makes me sad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davek, post: 3358904, member: 519"] I'll get the vaccine when available. With the other risks I have for Covid-19 the vaccine will be less risky than taking a chance on the consequences of getting the disease. I remember the Swine flu problems in 1976. I hate shots. I also got the flu like clockwork every February for a long time. But after getting a bad case of flu with pneumonia in 2003 I started getting flu shots and the pneumonia vaccine. I went 14 years straight with no flu. Then I got the flu twice in one year, A then B, but I got over it in a few days and only felt bad about 2 of those days. Vaccines are really miraculous medicine. Not a cure. Not a treatment. Prevention. And, apparently, some help reducing the severity of the disease if you come down with it anyway. I was born just a few weeks after the polio vaccine became available. Few people alive remember how terrifying polio was for parents in the early 1950's. The kid that lived next door had braces on his legs and crutches from getting Polio in 1953. The polio vaccines put a stop to that. I had measles and chickenpox when I was a kid. Kids today don't have to go through that. People have forgotten how much damage measles can do. If we get a vaccine quickly it will be based on new technology that doesn't use live or attenuated viruses for the vaccine. Whether or not that will be risk reduction is yet to be seen and I hope if there are any issues the trials will find them. I'll suck it up and take the risk though. I seem to be rambling so I'll stop. It's just that a lot of the anti-vax bulls**t really makes me sad. [/QUOTE]
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