Vaccine Fears

So I was talking with someone about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines coming out to protect again Coronavirus.

They tell me that the news is reporting 95% effectiveness and then they pull out their smartphone and show me a cartoon of someone taking the vaccine and their face is all deformed (I won’t go into the details).

So I ask him:

Are you going to talk the vaccine?

He says:

“No!”

I ask:

Do you take the flu vaccine?

Again he says :

No, it’s poison!

He thinks some more and says (jokingly, I believe):

And if some big burly guys try to hold me down and make me take it, I’ll tell them I’m gonna go out and get a gun and come back tomorrow and shoot them.

Bottom line: there is some real fear and apprehension out there about these vaccines.

And surely, some people do have negative effects — whatever that percentage is.

Personally, I will take the vaccine. I would rather try and fail (hopefully not), than never try at all!

How long the vaccine is effective for — that’s another matter all together. ;-)

(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)