Originally Posted by
Midsomer
You shouldn’t have taken the shot reluctantly. If you have true religious or science reasons for not getting the shot then why cave? Also you blame others for accepting the rushed and unproven yet you did the exact same.
You put a price on your moral standards apparently. It’s okay, it is just much like the hyped religion message coming from the infidelity group.
I'm the furthest thing from an anti-vaxxer, and actually believe that even companies have freedom of association and should be able to mandate vaccines in circumstances which align with .gov guidance.
But the decision to get a vaccine is not binary, black-and-white. There are actual statistical risks to pretty much any vaccine so it's always a cost-benefit analysis. Frankly I would never get a vaccine "just because" such as for some exotic bug found only in Timbuckthree, if I wasn't going there.
I have a shot card longer than my arm from the mil, including anthrax. Risk was acceptable to enable my career. Anthrax was a little iffy, but my motivation on that was straight up 9/11 revenge, ie getting into the fight. I also jumped out of airplanes for those reasons.
I got the two covid shots pretty early on because we had a family trip planned to a country that required it. Otherwise I would have waited longer and assessed developments over time.
Getting a shot you're not comfortable with to preserve your lucrative job and career is a reasonable tradeoff, if one so chooses.