A friend of mine is a physical therapist at a nursing home in west alabama. This nursing home is currently in the middle of an outbreak, a bunch of the residents are infected. She said all but one worker there is refusing to take the vaccine, including her.
Nothing is risk free but I think the hysteria over this vaccine is overblown. If significant number of people don't get vaccinated then this crap is just going to go on for the foreseeable future, more lockdowns and more people out of work..
That's not the pattern for viruses of the past, prior to vaccination science. They would typically be a plague for a year or two, then disappear once enough people had developed a natural immunity to it. The human race (if we include our more primitive forms) has been repeating that pattern for millions of years.
That's the reason I said foreseeable future. If left to nature the virus eventually will go away. We have technology that can reduce that time period and keep people from dying that otherwise would die while we wait for the virus to burn itself out, I say use it.
That's separate from the lockdowns. I'm on record as thinking the lockdowns are BS and doing much more harm than necessary. That being said, the terrified rabbits that are the American people today aren't going to come out of their holes and go back to work until the virus is under control. Waiting for the virus to go away naturally will mean at least another year of destroyed businesses and destroyed lives. The destruction to our economy could reach the point where the people of the U.S. vote in Bernie Sanders style communism. Historically communism has gained a foothold only when a nation's economy is completely in the crapper, people feel like they have nothing to lose so they vote in the guy that's promising them the moon for free. Look at how FDR ushered in socialism during the great depression, he couldn't have done that with a healthy economy and we're still stuck with that garbage almost a century later.
It's always a trade off. I'm a lot more scared of the damage being done to our country than I am of the vaccine. If we wait for this virus to burn itself out then we might not have a country to reopen when it happens. The virus already is responsible for the defeat of the best president in modern times and soon to be installation of a Chinese puppet. Imagine if we'd had mass vaccination and the virus was under control by election day, Trump would have been re-elected by such a wide margin the democrats couldn't have stolen the election.
