The rushed production and clinical trials of the vaccine is for start.
Add the fact that COVID-19 is still not fully understood from a scientific/microbiological perspective, you'll start to realize that a vaccine to be genuinely effective has to know what it's doing.
The COVID vaccines are already an experimental form that has never been massively distributed ever (mRNA vaccines).
The producers of the vaccine, specifically Pfizer, has a notorious history of producing products that cause medical issues which led to countless of class-action lawsuits.
There are lots of unknowns in the vaccine and to rush getting one is putting yourself in unnecessary danger. Waiting it out would be best in order to see the short-term side effects that you get from it.
Don't be fooled by the severity of the COVID, especially if you're not in the geriatrics demographic.
I agree with all your points about how rushed it is, though i guess we should be evaluating the history of that, what was it, Turkish couple? Who came up with the vaccine, rather than Pfizer?
I don't think the severity or personal threat of covid is the point, everyone's known that it has a really minimal mortality rate since almost the beginning, so people harping on low deaths are harping on old news that's beside the point~
i just feel like it's common sense to do what you can to minimize it, it doesn't cost me a thing to wear a mask, or wash my hands, so i just do it and get on with my day, which i think is the prevailing local idea in Japan in general~
For the record, I'm adopting a wait and see approach to the vaccine too, but if it's shown to be the real deal i won't think twice about doing it - to satisfy my girl, if nothing else. That would be enough motivation. Also, i might need to fly back to Australia at short notice to see my sick mum, and if that requires a vaccine to accomplish ASAP I'll get it done~
Ps. This is wild, I'm in a Starbucks here and some grandma has the mgs2 codec call sound for her ringtone..
weird
