I have been against taking any covid-19 vaccine.
I am not anti-vaccination, I am just using my brain and also when even the experts have no idea about the vaccine, it does not make me want to get one.
Anti-vaccination is not the same as being against the covid-19 vaccine.
I am not against anyone else getting one, but here are my reasons. Make of them what you will.
1. I have a choice in taking one of two vaccines: I am not having something made in China inside me (the Sinovac one).
I would rather take the Pfizer-BioNTech one which is imported by Fosun Pharma from Germany, if I do take it. The Oxford-AstraZeneca is supposed to be imported later in the year, but if we do get it, then I would still take Pfizer-BioNTech's.
2. WHO's Kate O'Brien and Dr Mike Ryan say from a public health point of view no government should make any covid-19 vaccine mandatory to take.
I will not go in-depth into my opinion on WHO, but suffice to say, they are still credible. I also have a personal connection with WHO.
Citation: The World Health Organization said Monday that persuading people on the merits of a Covid-19 vaccine would be far more effective than trying to make the jabs mandatory.
The WHO said it would be down to individual countries as to how they want to conduct their vaccination campaigns against the coronavirus pandemic.
But the UN health agency insisted making it mandatory to get immunised against the disease would be the wrong road to take, adding there were examples in the past of mandating vaccines use only to see it backfire with greater opposition to them.
“I don’t think that mandates are the direction to go in here, especially for these vaccines,” Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s immunisation department, told a virtual news conference. “It is a much better position to actually encourage and facilitate the vaccination without those kinds of requirements. I don’t think we envision any countries creating a mandate for vaccination.”
O’Brien said there may be certain hospital professions in which being vaccinated might be required or highly recommended for staff and patient safety.
But WHO experts admitted there was a battle to be fought to convince the general public to take the vaccines as they become available.
“The vaccine story is a good news story. It is the victory of human endeavour, potentially, over a microbial adversary,” said the organisation’s emergencies director Michael Ryan.
“We need to convince people and we need to persuade.”
As for making vaccines mandatory, he said: “I think all of us who work in public health would rather avoid that as a means for getting people vaccinated. “We are much better served to present people with the data and the benefits and let people make up their own minds.”
“There are certain circumstances … where I would believe that the only responsible thing would be to be vaccinated,” he added.
3. What are the long-term and short-term health effects?
No expert can tell me with 100% certainty what they are
4. How long are you immune for?
I need a definite answer from an expert
5. It is not a 'traditional' vaccine
Many vaccines you are injected with and never get infected/sick. People have been fully vaccinated with a covid-19 vaccine and have been infected with covid-19. Yes, a milder form, but it is still covid-19.
Example: the leader of Argentina.
6. I am not a priority group
Here I can get vaccinated should I decide to because the government have decided I can.
Children should be a priority group but because the experts know fuck all about the vaccine no one under a certain teenage age, depending on the country, can take it.
Call me what you want, but in terms of the Human population, if most of the people over 60-70 die, the Human population will survive.
If many children die, ie children under a certain teenage age depending on the country, the Human population will die out. In many places, 18 is when you are legally considered an adult and even then, many 18 year olds are not financially independent and living a stable and sustainable life. So it's not just children dying, it's at least 18 years from birth on top of that, at least, until they are possibly a contributing member of society.
So the vaccine needs to be able to be used on children and they need to be a priority group.
As I am not a priority group and I believe in priority groups, another reason against any covid vaccine.
7. Travel
Seriously, you trust the Human population can sort out travel? Travel in this case means flights as it's more commonly used to get from Country A to Country B, in contrast to, say, ferries.
Example/proof 1: As a Travel Baby, I gave up on trying to adhere to the check-in weight of my one suitcase of each airline/flight.
If you don't understand, you do not travel.
I just stick to my own self-imposed weight of 20 Kg because it makes my life so much easier.
Why? One reason: have you ever tried to shrink 30 Kgs or 25 Kgs into less Kgs without buying and paying more or putting your personal belongings in the bin?
Save yourself the trouble, ignore the staff and stick to 20 Kg check-in weight for one suitcase.
Why one? Always assume the 'worst'. Are you gonna make your life harder and travel with two 20 Kg suitcases, plus your carry-on and backpack/handbag (and coat/jacket)?
Example/proof 2: It is historical, but there is no one electric plug system. There is some homogeneity between countries, but there is a reason expensive international travel adaptors exist.
Are those examples enough proof of what chaos governments are going to cause with travel and covid-19 vaccines? Governments are Humans, like the people who set the 20 Kg check-in weight and the people who have say over plugs, which on any level, are two pretty insignificant irritations. You think Humans can manage significant problems?
Note I am not even meaning the 'vaccine passport', I don't give a fuck about that. Example: You have taken Vaccine A in Country 1, but Country 2 requires you to have Vaccine B.
What if you are not flying direct? Maybe Country 3 you stop in will require you to have Vaccine C.
And you know what? You will be the one most impacted, you will end up stuck and upset and possibly spending a lot more money. The people in charge will not budge, believe me.
This is aside from possible quarantine of 7-14-21 days, which you may have to pay for, and possibly also on top of the covid-19 tests and anything else that did not exist pre-covid-19 before you even put one toe on board a plane.
Travel may be a reason I get Pfizer-BioNTech, but even then, because Humans are Human, I might prefer not to travel.
If I do get vaccinated, I will get one recognized by many governments, which goes back to 1 - no vaccine made in China. Still, being vaccinated still may not allow me to travel and I accept that.
Or, vaccinated or not, I'll find flights that mean I can get from A to B. Research, baby, research.
8. People around my age getting sick
Yes, apparently they are, because they're not taking precautions, not because of any other reason like the virus has mutated and become a strain which specifically targets my age group.
Yes, life with covid-19 can be really, really hard. Especially for the people in countries like Italy, France, England etc. who have not only been in lockdown for long amounts of time, but in and out of lockdown.
But do you want to live life like it was pre-pandemic? Then fucking take precautions. Especially as you are not a priority group, it is selfish.
9. Covid-19 needs to be contained, that is the only solution health-wise and for the World economy and World politics
For anything to be like it was pre-pandemic, covid-19 must be the number on top priority on all levels in all places.
But the vaccines are not the solution. SARS was contained and there wasn't a vaccine and there still isn't. It's a coronavirus too. And it has never appeared again.
- A.M.
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