Will you take the vaccine

will you take the vaccine

  • yes

    Votes: 91 37.0%
  • no

    Votes: 24 9.8%
  • maybe later

    Votes: 21 8.5%
  • heck no

    Votes: 30 12.2%
  • BTDT - Got the shot

    Votes: 80 32.5%

  • Total voters
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Sierra1

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That's weird. It was my understanding that they were virtually the same. Pfizer was claiming 96%, and Moderna 94%, initially. That could be why they're recommending not to mix manufacturers if/when you get a booster dose.
 

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In the uk we’re finding that immunity is starting to weaken so we’re embarking on a booster for over 50s along with the flu vax


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Regarding Pfizer and Moderna, I'd read that the Moderna vaccine had a higher concentration of the active ingredient (I'm not a vaccine pro, so forgive my terminology). Unclear if that might have an impact on the longevity of the effect, but it would be akin to getting more for your immune system to react to, which may provide for more "immune system memory." I don't know if that holds water or not.

I'll be happy to get a booster shot if they become available. My initial reaction to the Moderna vaccine was pretty mild. Just got sleepy for half a day.

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In the uk we’re finding that immunity is starting to weaken so we’re embarking on a booster for over 50s along with the flu vax
Yeah, that was "last week's news". Then politics got involved. Now they're backing off from "booster for everybody". Instead they're saying that they want to concentrate on getting everybody fully vaccinated first. My opinion is that, in the U.S., if you're not vaccinated by now . . . . you don't want it.

Pfizer has shown the results that the efficacy wanes after six months. Hence the eight month time period. Why would they risk another surge as people's protection wears off. Almost like they don't really want it to go away.

Personally. . . . if they don't allow the third booster dose. . . . I'm just gonna go somewhere and get a "first" dose, and not go back for my second. All three doses are supposed to be the same.
 

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There are a lot of unanswered questions, simply because this virus is still relatively new. I have seen conflicting data over whether those who have contracted the virus have sufficient antibody response, with some reports being no, they still need the vaccine to some saying that recovering from COVID leads to stronger antibody response than being vaccinated.

And for the record, as mentioned I am an outlier, as I was vaccinated with the J&J one-shot, and I would classify my breakthrough infection as severe.
 

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This is something like #5 of these radio personalities in only the last 6 weeks. Anti-vax, making fun of AIDS victims, . . .


Karma's both a bitch and a real thing. I wonder how many died because of his poisonous lies to keep his show ratings up.

Announcer Phil Valentine went from anti-vax to telling people to get the shot when he was dying. While I doubt it, maybe their deaths can save some of their followers by getting vaccinated.
In a mad world, even the mad are sane.
 

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My dr told me everybody at our local hospital with rona is unvacinated. I ask three nurses if they were vaccinated. Got a no and a big long bs excuse. I told one smart ass she was part of the problem. Hope she's never my nurse. Might get some Special treatment. They need to mandate everyone of them to get the vacc. I still don't see ho they cannot want the vacc when they are watching people die miserably. They have the same mentality as some Harley boys I know.
 

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I just read the new guidance that came out from the "Safer Workforce Task Force" yesterday that will require all federal government (US) contractors and subcontractors to be vaccinated by 08 Dec 2021. This is going to likely cause 70% of my workforce to seek other employment . I am a facility maintenance manager. It will be completely debilitating. Do not read this as either pro or anti vax. Just stating a fact.
 

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Sorry to hear that. That’s pitiful. My friend works for Transocean offshore told me. They all have to get it. He getting it no problem and keeping his job. He didn’t mention anyone quitting over it.
 

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I just read the new guidance that came out from the "Safer Workforce Task Force" yesterday that will require all federal government (US) contractors and subcontractors to be vaccinated by 08 Dec 2021. This is going to likely cause 70% of my workforce to seek other employment . I am a facility maintenance manager. It will be completely debilitating. Do not read this as either pro or anti vax. Just stating a fact.
Wow! 70% of your workers are un vaxxed? That is a shocker. What industry is this?
 

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My dr told me everybody at our local hospital with rona is unvacinated. I ask three nurses if they were vaccinated. Got a no and a big long bs excuse. I told one smart ass she was part of the problem. Hope she's never my nurse. Might get some Special treatment. They need to mandate everyone of them to get the vacc. I still don't see ho they cannot want the vacc when they are watching people die miserably. They have the same mentality as some Harley boys I know.
A nurse at out local hospital has an auto-immune issue which precludes her from getting the shot. Shots are mandated here for healthcare workers, she is going to lose her career (and her livelihood) that she has worked at for over a decade. She has been a front line Covid worker, using PPE, for the past year and a half without catching the virus. A year ago you were calling her a hero, now she's "part of the problem"?

Perhaps you should not be so judgemental....
 

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I just read the new guidance that came out from the "Safer Workforce Task Force" yesterday that will require all federal government (US) contractors and subcontractors to be vaccinated by 08 Dec 2021. This is going to likely cause 70% of my workforce to seek other employment . I am a facility maintenance manager. It will be completely debilitating. Do not read this as either pro or anti vax. Just stating a fact.
This^

I'm vaxed but pro choice (Darwin will sort them out).

Healthcare facilities all over the country in states that have mandated the vaccine for healthcare workers are already shutting down facilities, stopping admissions, cancelling elective procedures, etc. Keep in mind: In addition to DR's and nurses, "healthcare workers" are also the maintenance staff, the housekeeping staff, the laundry staff, the food service staff, etc. These are minimum wage workers that can easily tell the hospitals to "get *ucked" with their mandates and go get a job at the local pizza joint. Meanwhile thousands will suffer because of reduced healthcare capacity. Actions have consequences....there needs to be options (regular testing, PPE, etc.) other than "get vaxed because we say so or lose your job".







 
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A nurse at out local hospital has an auto-immune issue which precludes her from getting the shot. . . .
Me not knowing her auto-immune issue will keep me from disputing her. But, right now, around here, those with auto-immune issues are the only ones that are "authorized" to get their third shot. Like Tenman, I've noticed a lot of hypocrisy with healthcare workers. Telling people to get vaccinated, but not doing so themselves. I don't understand the logic. And, if getting vaccinated guaranteed me from getting the virus, I wouldn't care if other people did, or didn't. But, the unvaccinated are still a threat . . . . just a reduced one.

I support personal freedoms. I don't like being forced to do things I don't want to either. But, my personal freedom of getting vaccinated has zero impact on your person freedom, whereas your personal freedom of not getting vaccinated . . . . has the potential of impacting many other's personal freedom of staying healthy & alive.

So, whose personal freedom is more important than others?
 

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This^

I'm vaxed but pro choice (Darwin will sort them out).

Healthcare facilities all over the country in states that have mandated the vaccine for healthcare workers are already shutting down facilities, stopping admissions, cancelling elective procedures, etc. Keep in mind: In addition to DR's and nurses, "healthcare workers" are also the maintenance staff, the housekeeping staff, the laundry staff, the food service staff, etc. These are minimum wage workers that can easily tell the hospitals to "get *ucked" with their mandates and go get a job at the local pizza joint. Meanwhile thousands will suffer because of reduced healthcare capacity. Actions have consequences....there needs to be options (regular testing, PPE, etc.) other than "get vaxed because we say so or lose your job".
I understand your point but there are some very good arguments and examples for Government Policy in the market place. In this instance, no one is being required to get vaccinated but they are being limited in their options if they do not. My concern is until vaccination reaches the point of stopping the spread of Covid we are providing it opportunities to mutate into something nastier that can beat the current vaccines. then we get to start all over again.

It is my sincere hope that we will see an improvement in the wages paid for those "staff" jobs to cover any perceived risk.

As regards my comment about Government Policy in the market place. I can cite some good examples but the easiest one to see the point with would be to ask "Is the Cuyahoga still burning?" Look the question over and consider all the "whys" and evolving arguments applied over the decades and where they are now

My over inflated 2 cents

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So, whose personal freedom is more important than others?
I'm a cranky selfish old bastard...so MY personal freedom trumps everybody else's. :mad: (I'll go eat a Snickers now....)

Regarding healthcare workers that CAN'T get vaccinated due to legitimate physiological reasons....you feel they should be fired as opposed to alternative options being offered?
 
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I understand your point but there are some very good arguments and examples for Government Policy in the market place. In this instance, no one is being required to get vaccinated but they are being limited in their options if they do not. My concern is until vaccination reaches the point of stopping the spread of Covid we are providing it opportunities to mutate into something nastier that can beat the current vaccines. then we get to start all over again.

It is my sincere hope that we will see an improvement in the wages paid for those "staff" jobs to cover any perceived risk.

As regards my comment about Government Policy in the market place. I can cite some good examples but the easiest one to see the point with would be to ask "Is the Cuyahoga still burning?" Look the question over and consider all the "whys" and evolving arguments applied over the decades and where they are now

My over inflated 2 cents

Wally
Agreed: policy vs mandate.

Regarding: "My concern is until vaccination reaches the point of stopping the spread of Covid we are providing it opportunities to mutate into something nastier that can beat the current vaccines".......vaccination will not "stop the spread" because the current crop of vaccines do not provide immunity (as has been evidened by the plethora of "break thru" cases). We can only strive to provide widespread resistance to the virus with the current vaccines and learn to live with this going forward (just like we live with the flu, SARS, Ebola, meningitis, dengue fever, etc.)
 

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Regarding healthcare workers that CAN'T get vaccinated due to legitimate physiological reasons....you feel they should be fired as opposed to alternative options being offered?
Having a daughter with an auto-immune problem, I feel for the nurse and would hope that her employer accommodate a real medical issue, as opposed to all the people simply claiming one. My daughter's employer's been good about it.

I'm a cranky selfish old bastard...so MY personal freedom trumps everybody else's. :mad: (I'll go eat a Snickers now....)
If you believe in US law, then that's not true. In the 1905 ruling of Jacobsen vs Massachussetts, the Supreme Court already ruled that your freedom ends when deciding not to be vaccinated curtails the rights of others.
 

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. . . . My concern is until vaccination reaches the point of stopping the spread of Covid we are providing it opportunities to mutate into something nastier that can beat the current vaccines. then we get to start all over again. . . .
My two cents agree. Stop it now, and we won't have to worry later.

. . . . I've had a posting up since May for a plumber, 4 (bad) applications. That's all.
The guy that built my shop, and the guy that wired my shop, both said the same thing. Can't find anybody that wants to work. And, that was pre-virus.
. . . . We can only strive to provide widespread resistance to the virus with the current vaccines and learn to live with this going forward (just like we live with the flu, SARS, Ebola, meningitis, dengue fever, etc.)
If I understand correctly, most other "ailments" don't have the incubation period of covid. (which actually is a form of SARS, which in turn allowed the vaccination to be developed so "quickly"). Covid has that time before you show symptoms that you're spreading it everywhere. You infect two friends, who infect two friends . . . . break the chain, and slow/stop the spread.

. . . . If you believe in US law, then that's not true. In the 1905 ruling of Jacobsen vs Massachussetts, the Supreme Court already ruled that your freedom ends when deciding not to be vaccinated curtails the rights of others. . . .
I guess that answers my question.

. . . . Regarding healthcare workers that CAN'T get vaccinated due to legitimate physiological reasons....you feel they should be fired as opposed to alternative options being offered?
Absolutely not. But, if they have a reason where they're a danger to themselves or others, they have to be willing to accept a position elsewhere in the company. See above Supreme Court ruling.
 
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