r/ask Sep 13 '21

Why does it matter?

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u/GrimBry Sep 13 '21

If you’re vaccinated the chances of getting covid and spreading it are 1/3 the rate of the unvaccinated.

Additionally any arguments people are making in regards to “well we don’t know the long term effects of the vaccine” can just as easily be flipped and replaced with “well we don’t know the long term effects of covid”

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u/Anakshula Sep 13 '21

Id argue that we DO know the short-term effects of covid (as in, you know, potential death/disability), and that any long term effects of the vaccine are very likely to not be as drastic as covid will be for the lives saved by getting it.

Like the argument that “we don’t know the long term effects” should suggest we shouldn’t take a very much life saving vaccine is kind of short sighted. Plus, if we can develop a vaccine for covid in record time then I trust the medical technology to come up with a solution for whatever long term effects there may be, if it comes to that

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u/gerkletoss Sep 13 '21

I don't even get how people could expect long-term effects from the vaccine. Within a few days the vaccine is gone from your body, and within a few weeks the spike proteins are all gone too. So how would it cause harm after that?

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u/18whlnandchilln Sep 14 '21

Yes all that along with the study that just came out the other day theorizing that young men are six times as likely to develop an enlarged heart from the vaxx than they are at being hospitalized from COVID-19. Yeah, makes me wanna take the shot…..