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Originally Posted by MagicalFruit
Depending on how many years until the next pandemic, I would think these 3 could be somewhat addressed:
- Supposed fear of long term side effects
If the next pandemic is, say, 20 years from now, that would be a lot better long term data than the 2 years we currently have.
- Vaccines being more(?) dangerous than what it's preventing
Again, in 20 years mRNA technology and testing damn well better be more tested. Also, depending on what it is preventing (i.e. something more serious than what COVID-19 turned out to be)...more people might find the risk/reward more palatable.
- Do the really work at all
Again, 20 years more of research will undoubtedly help.
Also, I didn't quote DaFace to say we should be afraid of the vaccines killing people, but rather to say "oh well" if he does die from it...Since he has the same sentiment about me for not getting it.
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The main reason I have my doubts on that is the science/technology will mostly likely change and the next thing may not be a coronavirus, so it won't be apples to apples... at least not enough to convince people who
clearly don't want to be convinced.
And potentially, two+ decades will have gone by as you said, so the people in their 30s-40s right now who are part of the lowly 30% fully vaccinated group in the first 6 months it was available, will now be 50 or 60+... and guess what, those percentages are already really high. A lot more of the skeptics will take it for no other reason than being old. The needle isn't going to move a ton on the gross number of people taking it.
And those who will be in their 30s or 40s will have been 10-20 during Covid, so are they sitting around now caring about how this vaccine does?