I agree with you. That is my feeling too. Although I would change that to don't let them have it!
I'm not sure how ill I will feel when taking the vaccine, because there is some talk that it can give unpleasant symptoms as your body kicks in its defence. But I am not sure how common or rare that is. Anyone know?
I've read that it definitely is likely to cause some unpleasantness in the next 24 hrs or so. But nothing that approaches damage or risk to life or livelihood, so to speak. Like the real thing can.
Well, you having the vaccine protects others that may have been infected by you if you got the virus. So it protects you directly, others indirectly. I agree with it being a personal decision though.
Of course I do know what you mean....I am just thinking, there are so many people who don't want to get it, we might as well boil the whole thing down to the abstract: What is really 'bad' about this virus? It hurts or kills people. But what is bad about that? Only if they don't want that to happen to them. Ultimately the badness of the virus--and consequently, the goodness of the vaccine--is only "good" from each person's perspective, what it can do for them. True, my vaccine might prevent Uncle Joe from getting the virus.............But, since Uncle Joe has something available to him that would probably protect him, bar none--and he refuses to get it, and in order to make people not feel forced to get it, we might as well boil it all down to: If only 60% of people want it, that's fine with me. The 40% who were totally OK risking getting COVID, it's hard to feel sympathy for so my goal becomes--as long as each person who wants it gets it Fauci might as well be happy