I can't give you any guidance on this one. First I'm not a doctor, not do I know your personal health/financial situation.

Just going to leave some hope for the best outcome for your family. I'd say first follow your doctor's suggestions and secondly do what what you think is best. Don't let your employer make your medical decisions for you. In the end if between your doctor, your research, and your gut feeling YOU decide to take it, great. If in the end you have to change what you thought your life plan was then so be it, we all get curve balls thrown at us in life, this is just one more.

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Originally posted by SIG228:
Polio and Smallpox vaccines had no political standing. Anyone who can't see the difference is blind.

Sturgis was a "super spreader event". Lallopalooza was a "celebration of life and expression of freedom".

Getting my bootleg vax card together as we speak

The only way to avoid potential side effects of pretty much all medicine and all vaccines would be to never take ANY medication or receive ANY vaccine. There are potentially lethal side effects to virtually any medicine or vaccine, yet fir the overwhelming majority of people that use those medications and vaccines, they improve their health because of those medications and vaccines. While it is tragic that some people die from unexpected side effects, it really shouldn’t prevent someone from taking medicine.

With respect to the Covid vaccine, I realize that there are some unique circumstances, so I don’t begrudge people for being extra cautious. Having said that, I do think that people are kidding themselves if they think that there will be a Covid vaccine available with 0% chance of death or serious complications. We may well see vaccines that are better and have lower chances of complications but it will never be 0%. Most people don’t see the flu as all that big of a deal, and somewhere around only half of the US gets the flu vaccine every year. However, for me, even with diminished chances of death or serious complications from contracting the flu, I do get the flu vaccine every year. To me the benefit is worth the risk.

My personal belief is that Covid will become very much like the flu. It is with us to stay and will continue to mutate, just as the influenza virus does. I realistically believe that yearly Covid shots are likely going to become a thing, despite what the CDC and other supposed experts say. Just as I roll up my sleeve every year for the flu shot, I will likely roll up my sleeve every year for the Covid shot if that reality does occur. I’m not judging people who think differently than I do, but I did feel it appropriate to respond that there will never be a vaccine with no risks or side effects, yet we’ve been taking and mandating vaccines with risks of side effects for decades. Also, for what it’s worth, when my daughter was born my wife and I made everyone in our friends and family get a flu shot if they wanted to hold her, even those that normally wouldn’t get the shot on their own. While it was anybody’s personal right to decide for themselves if they wanted to get the flu shot for themselves, it was also our right to keep our daughter from anyone that chose not to get the flu vaccine. Similarly, I would not send my daughter to a school that would allow students to opt out of vaccines like measles, polio, rubella, etc. Covid is still too new to know how I will feel about Covid vaccines when the day comes that I send my daughter to school, but it will absolutely bear some consideration.