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Originally Posted by Gulfcoast
Members of my household have been going to their service industry jobs and dealing with the public face to face throughout this pandemic. Even when dentists and primary care physicians had closed their offices and weren't seeing patients, there were workers heading to their jobs at grocery stores, pharmacies, food service, gasoline stations - day in, day out.
That has helped to shape my perspective as to the risks of this virus. When you live with the risk daily, you get a pretty good idea how bad (or not so bad) things really are, at least in terms of yourself and your own family.
I'm the 55 year old mom who had healthy, active teens going to their jobs and schools plus activities. And, I was also the whippersnapper who was out running errands for her elderly mom. I haven't had the luxury of "staying safe" but thankfully we did manage to get through the better part of a year without a vaccine.
Now that the cases are falling, vulnerable people have gotten vaccinated and the actual risks of catching Covid have been greatly reduced we are now supposed to run out and get vaccinated even though we have likely already had the virus, albeit mild cases of it?
Why?
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Good points - as a nurse, I can say that you certainly may NOT have had COVID - who knows? The reason to have the vaccine is to achieve herd immunity. I’ve talked to so many people who are terrified of the vaccine. However, it is safe and the science behind it is good. Those who don’t get the vaccine are hoping the rest of us will provide herd immunity. Unfortunately, if you do get the virus, you can spread it. It kills a lot of people and causes long term problems. That being said, I believe in free choice, although I don’t understand why people don’t want to keep the virus from spreading to those who are vulnerable. To each his own!