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If you knew then, what we know now- Would you still have taken the Covid Vaccine starting in 2020?

If you knew then, what we know now- Would you still have taken the Covid Vaccine in 2020?

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VySky

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Like it says.

With what we know to date, had you known it 5 years ago, would you have took the jab?
 
VySky said:
Like it says.

With what we know to date, had you known it 5 years ago, would you have took the jab?
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No, and I wish I wouldn't have gotten those initial two shots back then. I did, however, not get any more after those two.

I did get Covid just once. I think it was last winter when I finally got it. It wasn't too bad, but it did drag on for a while.
 
Interesting data point

Twice as many people have taken the flu vaccine 45% vs Covid 22.6%

Vaccination Trends:​

  • The percent of the population reporting receipt of the updated 2024─25 COVID-19 vaccine is 11.9% (11.1-12.7) for children and 22.6% (22.0-23.3) for adults age 18+, including 44.7% (42.7-46.7) among adults age 65+.

  • The percent of the population reporting receipt of an influenza vaccine is 45.7% (44.2-47.2) for children and 45.0% (43.9-46.1) for adults age 18+, including 70.4% (67.9-72.8) among adults age 65+.

  • The percent of adults age 75+ reporting ever receiving an RSV vaccine is 46.0% (44.3-47.7).
www.cdc.gov

Vaccination Trends

Vaccination uptake & intent for COVID, flu, and RSV
www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov
 
Grown men who are afraid of needles are legit alpha males.

COVID Deaths Toll​

As of February 14, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that around 7 million people have died of COVID-19 worldwide since the pandemic was declared in March 2020. However, taking into account likely COVID-induced deaths via excess deaths, the 95% confidence interval suggests the pandemic to have caused between 19.1 and 36 million deaths. Excess deaths are defined as the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods.
 
Dans La Lune said:
Grown men who are afraid of needles are legit alpha males.

COVID Deaths Toll​

As of February 14, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that around 7 million people have died of COVID-19 worldwide since the pandemic was declared in March 2020. However, taking into account likely COVID-induced deaths via excess deaths, the 95% confidence interval suggests the pandemic to have caused between 19.1 and 36 million deaths. Excess deaths are defined as the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods.
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Go ahead an log your YES to the poll if you haven't already
 
BirdinHand said:
Yep.

Never doubted my choice.

Have also never had Covid that I’m aware of since.
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I've never had COVID, and my father who received the vaccine has had COVID a couple times. None of them required hospitalization, thanks to the protection that the vaccine provided.
 
Dans La Lune said:
I've never had COVID, and my father who received the vaccine has had COVID a couple times. None of them required hospitalization, thanks to the protection that the vaccine provided.
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Most unvaccinated don't need hospitalization either.

So theres that.
 
VySky said:
Interesting data point

Twice as many people have taken the flu vaccine 45% vs Covid 22.6%

Vaccination Trends:​

  • The percent of the population reporting receipt of the updated 2024─25 COVID-19 vaccine is 11.9% (11.1-12.7) for children and 22.6% (22.0-23.3) for adults age 18+, including 44.7% (42.7-46.7) among adults age 65+.

  • The percent of the population reporting receipt of an influenza vaccine is 45.7% (44.2-47.2) for children and 45.0% (43.9-46.1) for adults age 18+, including 70.4% (67.9-72.8) among adults age 65+.

  • The percent of adults age 75+ reporting ever receiving an RSV vaccine is 46.0% (44.3-47.7).
www.cdc.gov

Vaccination Trends

Vaccination uptake & intent for COVID, flu, and RSV
www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov
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This makes sense to me. I do get flu shots from time to time and I would consider an RSV shot, but I haven't gotten one yet. I didn't get any shots in 2024 or 2025. I haven't been sick at all in the last year, but I just heard on the news yesterday that this has been a very bad year for flu. I was a bit surprised to learn that just because neither of us have been sick at all. That was the first I'd heard about the bad flu year.
 
VySky said:
Interesting data point

Twice as many people have taken the flu vaccine 45% vs Covid 22.6%
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I'm sure we can aim even lower thanks to RFK Jr, aka Captain Trips.

Just a little Stephen King reference there. Captain Trips is the name of the virus that wipes out humanity in The Stand.
 
gbg3 said:
This makes sense to me. I do get flu shots from time to time and I would consider an RSV shot, but I haven't gotten one yet. I didn't get any shots in 2024 or 2025. I haven't been sick at all in the last year, but I just heard on the news yesterday that this has been a very bad year for flu. I was a bit surprised to learn that just because neither of us have been sick at all. That was the first I'd heard about the bad flu year.
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I took the RSV vaccine a couple days ago. Don’t take the flu shot. Never have.
 
Absolutely and still am.
 
VySky said:
Google.com
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Google says that Trump voting areas died at three times the rate of everyone else.

www.theguardian.com

People in counties that voted Trump more likely to die from Covid – study

Areas that voted for Trump by at least 60% in November 2020 had 2.7 times the death rate than counties that voted heavily for Biden
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

It also says that the reasons are not because they are older, but because they are ignorant and misinformed.

"We discuss several mechanisms explaining why, to some extent universally, conservatives (the right-wing oriented public) were less likely to follow public health recommendations, were more COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant, and had increased infection rates, poorer health outcomes, and increased mortality compared to left-wing oriented public. The mechanisms explaining the links include the media, trust, cognitions, and values. We conclude the chapter with lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and future research directions on the pandemics' politicization."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The Politicization of the COVID-19 Pandemic - PubMed

Political actors and institutions are largely responsible for effectively implementing the latest scientific and medical information in the form of public health measures. However, when politicians' judgments and decision-making are not founded on scientific facts or when scientific findings are...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence - PMC

During the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. conservative politicians and the media downplayed the risk of both contracting COVID-19 and the effectiveness of recommended health behaviors. Health behavior theories suggest perceived ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
 
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