colliric wrote:I'm in fucking Australia and so is he.
So what? That means you gotta put foot notes, clarify and correct everything he says. Plenty of other PoFoers here live in the US and we dont go around sniffing each other butts
. But hey, to each their own.
I'm listening to the federal and state government Health authorities, not yours.
Somehow i doubt your state government health authorities are recommending you against getting vaccinated. Specially if you got blood pressure issues.
I am not taking the AZ vaccine because I have blood pressure issues and so does my mum. I would therefore be excluded from taking that one too anyway.
And I also can't take the vaccine at the moment for several weeks anyway. I just had the flu shot.
I am smelling a ripe case of rationalization. Either you are lying to yourself or you are pretending on purpose. Either way this is nonsense.
In the last year I have interacted with probably over 100 physicians, a few dozen of them have discussed vaccines with me. While I am sure each one of them might have their personal preference about what vaccine they would prefer for themselves, not a single one rejected whatever vaccine was available on the day of vaccination. And I promise you, even the most ignorant of my colleagues is more up to date on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines than you are.
Fun fact, I was the 2nd person of my hospital to get the vaccine, I was actually the first one in line but the woman that was supposed to stab me misplaced my info and took a couple mins longer than the person behind me in the line.
You are rationalizing. You know that all the patients that I got this week... every single one of them had the chance of getting the vaccine. Here in the US, the vaccine has been available for a long time. Pharmacies, Costco, clinics, hospitals and even fucking grocery shops have had them available to just about anyone. This means, my two intubated patients could have avoided this. They are literally fighting for their lives because for whatever nonsensical reason they skipped the vaccine. Maybe if was a Facebook post, or a shitty "news" article or FOX news, who cares... they are all responsible for those guys in my ICU right now. Even if they don't die, even if they survive, their lives will never be the same. They will have lost weeks of work, their recovery will be long and miserable, they might end up with crappy lungs afterwards and their exercise capacity might be way lower. Just because they probably did the same sort of rationalization that you are doing right now.