I'd urge you to read up on the actual impacts. Vaccines have side effects for a small % of recipients. If you think the numbers I posted previously are a major risk then we are at an impasse. I'd suggest your SIL and granddaughter never get any vaccinations. That will most assuredly keep your granddaughter from summer camps, public school, getting to live in a college dorm and any number of opportunities. I just hope she doesn't catch the viruses these vaccines protect against because having the measles is much worse than the vaccination. Catching meningitis is much worse than the side effect of he vaccination. For an other worldly high %, the Covid 19 vaccination is less risky than catching the virus.
I'm just glad there weren't more people like you when the Polio vaccine was introduced. Vaccines have historically been a boon to human civilization. Good luck. I sincerely hope you are fortunate enough not to catch the virus, if you haven't been vaccinated.
My step-father-in-law wasn't so fortunate. 70yrs old and completed an Iron Man Triathlon just 10yrs ago. Covid dropped him to the point that he gave up after 3 months in the hospital.
A close family friend was an All Big 10 OL for Northwestern and an emergency room doctor. Dude was in great shape, ~48yrs old and was hours from dying before pulling out of it and is staring at physical therapy for years to hopefully get back what he lost.
My wife's friend had a 10yr old son that went from catching the virus to death in a week.
These are just the people adjacent to us that were impacted by Covid directly. The virus is a *****. It's what led us to the decision that as soon as our son's were able to get vaccinated they should. It was an easy decision, even in light of the cardiomyopathy investigation. My sister, 42 contracted the virus too. Hives, itching and severe rash lasting weeks, quarantined from her family and job. Still, even after that her family will try to avoid the vaccine. I don't understand. I offered up the data and still she's convinced the virus isn't a big deal. Yes, we both experienced our step-father-in-law wasting away on a ventilator. Well, we couldn't directly because we weren't allowed in the hospital. Part of me wonders if the fact that she couldn't see him suffer impacted her view. Clearly her media consumption shades her perception.
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