To refuse to have a corona vaccine?

[EasyPleasey]

A lot of people seem to be waiting for a corona vaccine. However I just dont trust any vaccine 'rushed' out, especially after all the mistakes made so far in this crisis. I would rather catch the actual virus and take my chances, as for most people it is a mild illness but who knows what the vaccine may do.

I know quite a few other people who say they will refuse any vaccine for this. I have had all the other vaccines, as have my children.

AIBU?

[bumbleymummy]

ddl1 - your vegan example is a choice. Technically vegans could work in a butcher shop but they choose not to. I don’t think they could be prevented from doing the job. Also, there are conscientious exemptions that people can use if they don’t want to provide certain services eg prescribing contraception, MAP etc so they can still work in those jobs and provide other services apart from those.

[RhiRhiRhi]

Oh do fuck off

[MiniMum97]

I think that the OP raises a valid concern and that this concern and this concern shouldn't be muddled up with the normal anti-vax propaganda.

Vaccines normally take many years if not decades to develop and to go through the many stages of proper testing for good reason.

This is from the New Scientist:


The 2013 study found that between 1998 and 2009, the average time taken to develop a vaccine was 10.7 years. It is possible to speed this up to some extent – since then, an Ebola vaccine has become the fastest-developed vaccine ever, being produced in just five years.
But to lower this to just 18 months would require the next steps of the development process to be begun before the previous ones were completed, Bottazzi says. This increases the risk of significant loss of investment should the vaccine fail to pan out, as well as raising questions about safety. An expedited path from early trials to scaled-up manufacturing would mean that researchers won’t have as much time to study the long-term effects of a vaccine in trial participants before it is given to the public, for example.


Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632804-000-why-itll-still-be-a-long-time-before-we-get-a-coronavirus-vaccine/#ixzz6Mf3A8f00

[CoCoCorona]

I don’t get the flu vaccine even though I’m offered at work. This is because I’ve had 2 bad reactions to it in the past, and many colleagues and friends/family say the same thing. I’m fit and healthy and even before the corona I had outdoor clothes and indoor clothes, kept hands clean etc. So the likelihood of me catching the flu is quite low.

This virus is different. I would get the vaccine because it’s not flu, it affects the lungs and causes breathing problems. That’s worse than flu. I’ve already had pneumonia in the past, and I wouldn’t want anything like that again.

[Rosebel]

Last summer I had a lung infection and it wiped me out for nearly 2 weeks and then took another 2 weeks before I actually felt well. I can imagine corona.being even worse and have no desire to feel that ill or worse again.

[grey12]

OP you either risk it with the disease or you risk it with the vaccine.
A lot of people are dying of the disease: fact!
People MAY have side effects from the vaccine.
I prefer my odds with the vaccine

[drcb83]

This is quick because it is the first time all the world has been focussed on one thing! 18 months is perfectly reasonable. They have WHO permission to expose people to the virus to check the vaccine works. I would have thought this was a given but was only recently granted!
My one concern is that the general testing groups are men and women (but usually men) 18-60. They will likely not have fully tested on older people or pregnant women as high risk groups so there may be caveats around them?

[sashh]

@countbackfromten it was approved for medical use.

Thalidomide is still prescribed, it is particularly valuable in treating loprosy. Not one person (to my knowledge) who took thalidomide had any side effects.

The children who were gestating were the ones effected.

There are other drugs that are used, but women are told to be extra careful with contraception. I was on methotrexate for years, it is not compatible with pregnancy.

The science wasn't bad with thalidomide, that absolute tragedy was that it was prescribed to reduce morning sickness.

Don't think I am in amyway dismissing the absoloute horror that families continue to go through.

As a society we are now much less keen to take any medication during pregnancy, but we have also shelved a drug that could be effective in the treatment of cancer, is effective against leprosy and deserves further study.

[drcb83]

Thalidamide is literally the reason the FDA approval process exists :) We are better now than we were.