I (a disabled truck mechanic) am not a doctor.
I am high risk for COVID, my health is poor.
I am not looking to reproduce, I've already done that 4 times.
I've recently (within the last 5 years) had adverse reactions to flu shots.
I don't WANT to die but I know it is inevitable and more likely each day I live.
If I contract COVID, I will likely die from it.
I have good reason to get the shot.
I also have rational reasons not to.
I need more information and more time to make my decision.
There are 7.9 Billion people alive right now on this planet.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
There are nearly 3 times more births per minute than deaths.
I realize high population causes many problems others attribute to other things. From employment issues to civil and family issues. Not only is it getting more expensive to live, people no longer care as much for the plight of the common man. Incompetence and agendas have become the norm.
One could look at the Earth as a living entity. People are a condition of life within the Earth's living system. We are part of the biosphere.
Pandemics might be thought of as Earth's attempt to cull an overpopulation problem. People have been getting better and better at nullifying natural culling. Our science and technology is creating a species which is unnatural.
COVID is a population driven culling. As culling goes, not a very effective one. What COVID does tell me is any viral infection has the potential to become a pandemic due to human population density. One could think of it as a trial run for a more effective culling vector.
From this point of view one could surmise the human measures taken to nullify the spread is creating a template for unnatural selection in our species. China has the highest population in the world followed closely by India. The United States is smaller by population yet has high infection because our way of life, population density in cities and tendency for world-wide travel, combine to make viral transmission fast. Other populous modern countries also contribute to this factor.
In a desperate attempt to arrest the spread of this particular pathogen, humans quickly develop a vaccine to try to halt the spread of the pathogen in high density populations. Many vaccines are produced over a short period of time and rolled out to the population in an effort to nullify the spread of the current pathogen.
It has been human history which shows us drugs which are rolled out to the population often have adverse effects over time. Effects which are not realized at the time the drug is distributed. It takes time to understand the effects of a drug on large populations. Just look at the history of past medical/drug law suits and court findings.
Medical science knows a lot. It doesn't know everything. Not only does time hide things, things tend to change over time.
In the effort to nullify a culling we may be causing a larger problem for our species in the future. Not tomorrow or next week, not in a year or three but maybe in as little as a few generations.
Science fiction is full of stories of how the 'cure' is worse than the 'disease'. We can't know if future generations will slowly become infertile as a result of some unknown conditions caused by our vaccination saturation.
What concerns me is not the pandemic we now face but the future pandemic to which we have no defense. A future pandemic which may be created by something our current panic driven cure caused. My issue is not vaccination but the fact there are so many different vaccinations being utilized at the same time in a relatively short span. Vaccination formulas which were quickly approved by panic driven political/society pressure.
The infection rate/death rate of COVID before vaccinations were available, did not justify the speed at which multiple formulas needed developed and rolled out quickly. The panic was not health driven as much as it was socially driven. The pandemic did more damage to society than it did to species health. It has become a money/power driven 'cure' in an attempt to nullify the restrictions on society caused by the pandemic.
These fast-breaking vaccinations are allowing society to 'return' to normal operation quickly. People who were 'not sick' were out of work. Bills were not being paid on time. Peoples 'lives' were interrupted by the pandemic restrictions. Suddenly, vaccinations are made available and society begins to return to normal. Vaccinations which were developed and rolled out in a mere two years time.
Suddenly we have all types of authorities assuring the safety of vaccines which have not had time to manifest any long term adverse effects. Authorities which are making guesses based on what they know right now because there hasn't been enough time to properly observe conditions over a long duration.
Large doses of radiation can kill you. Small doses can kill you slower but also cause birth defects in your offspring. When atomic bomb tests were being done, at first, we had no idea affected people would produce defective offspring. We had to wait until those offspring were born and were studied.
We take precautions even when x-raying pregnant women because we now know what happens. We learned vital information after the fact, over duration.
Bextra, Geodon, Zyvox, Lyrica, Bextra, Risperdal, Invega, Natrecor, Depakote, Zyprexa, Vioxx, Aranesp, Seroquel, Tracleer, Ventavis, Veletri, Opsumit, OxyContin to name a few recent drugs which are no longer safe or pulled from general distribution. All which were, at one time, readily available. Plus, if you were to go back a full century, many, many more.
Granted, there are many more which have no bad effects. But all of them have time proven observational histories.
None of the COVID vaccines have time proven observational histories. There's no way anyone can know what might happen to people, or their children, as a result of using a fast produced, panic distributed vaccine. Plus, there's multiple versions of the formulas which have different side effects.
On top of all this, we are fast approaching a total saturation vaccination protocol. We have people outside the risk group being vaccinated because COVID mutates. I haven't been following the vaccination progression but I believe we are close to vaccinating children, if not already there. What happens when children who's bodies are still maturing, are vaccinated with an unproven vaccine? Nobody can answer that, there hasn't been enough time.
I know this...
Vaccinations are being pushed. Pushed rather incessantly. Pushed anywhere medical establishments exist. From the local doctor's office to Walmart.
There are multiple vaccines available from multiple mega-drug companies. Often the same mega-drug companies which have been sued over some of the drugs they push.
People who have been vaccinated no longer take precautions. Despite multiple COVID strains. Strains which may or may not be nullified by the vaccine they got.
COVID's ability to mutate quickly is a threat no current vaccine is prepared for. Vaccines which work with one strain may not work for subsequent mutations. Nobody really knows, there hasn't been enough time.
Booster shots are expected. Booster shot frequency has not been verified by duration observational data and testing. They're guessing.
Most medical drugs treat symptoms and do not 'cure'. Very few drugs 'cure' the disease. My diabetes meds do not cure my diabetes, they treat the symptoms. Inoculations do not 'cure' the disease they allow your body to create a stronger defense against the disease. The disease still exists, you just no longer get sick from it. Only over a period of time with certain diseases, does the disease actually die out or is it waiting in the dirt?
If you take the details of this pandemic and apply it to a deadlier virus, the virus will win.
In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared the world free of smallpox. But before that, humans battled smallpox for thousands of years, and the disease killed about 1 in 3 of those it infected. It left survivors with deep, permanent scars and, often, blindness.
Mortality rates were far higher in populations outside of Europe, where people had little contact with the virus before visitors brought it to their regions. For example, historians estimate 90% of the native population of the Americas died from smallpox introduced by European explorers. In the 20th century alone, smallpox killed 300 million people.
Small pox was not 'cured' in 2 years. Small pox was transmitted by population density and travel. Insert small pox into the current pandemic scenario and the affect would be disastrous. That's just small pox, there's many other 'known' diseases which would be equally dangerous in today's world. Plus, the past diseases do not guarantee the path of new, unknown diseases, diseases which are driven by population density conditions.
High population density and worldwide travel create pandemic potential of any isolated virus. Instead of a single village or island being wiped out, it has the potential to wipe out and decimate populations on a grand scale world-wide. Plus, with populations rising as they are, the threat is growing not receding. It is very likely the world will see pandemics at a higher frequency as time goes by.
Look what COVID (a rather 'tame' virus) did to the world.
Will COVID mutate to a worse pathogen? One for which no 'quick fix' can be developed?
Will our current rush to vaccinate actually cause a future strain of COVID to be more deadly?
Will another virus spread like COVID to which we have no fast defense?
Will people become unjustly 'reassured' by COVID treatment and prevention successes causing undue faith in the medical sciences?
Will the current COVID vaccines have adverse long duration effects on people and their offspring?
In ten years, how many COVID vaccines will there be?
Which ones will have been proven unsafe?
Which companies will have been sued?
Who went to jail?
Life has a habit of making fast, desperate choices ... bad ones.