So sorry to start another vaccine thread.. believe me I have read so many over the past few days I can hardly believe that I'm writing one myself. My hometown is offering mobile Pfizer vaccination this weekend and I have been psyching myself up to get it done. I had very mild Covid at the beginning of the year and since my age group has been called I've been having anxiety about getting my vaccine. This surprises me as I am absolutely not anti vaccine in genera I have had all of my vaccinations and my two children have had all of theirs - I have also had vaccines for tetanus and any vaccine I've been offered while pregnant - I will admit I didn't research any side effects for these vaccines and trusted medical professionals when they recommended them.. in fact I didn't even really think about them having any adverse effects and just took it as a given that they were beneficial so I should have them. Anyway I don't know what's different about this vaccine or if I'm being sucked in by social media or scaremongering but I am so so anxious at the thought of it.. I've spent hours googling it and the side effects and how they might be worse than Covid and in some cases life changing/ threatening. I know that logically the chances of anything like this happening are low but I can't seem to get past it. I also know that some people have an "agenda" to put people off the vaccine but I can't work out why and I suppose that's my question really - people are being accused of being anti vaccine and trying to put people off having the vaccine, accused of sensationalising or making up side effects to decrease uptake but I can't work out why- why would anyone do this what is the benefit of it at all? I'm reading through some threads and seeing people being accused of being anti vax or spreading misinformation and I'm finding it hard to disregard what they are saying without having some kind of explanation as to why people would actively discourage someone to have a vaccine? I think if I could understand the logic in that it might help me to rationalise it a little more and try to unpick the information I am reading in a more logical and unbiased way...
To cut a long story short - I want to want to get the vaccine but I've scared myself silly reading about adverse effects, I'm worried that I've had Covid and now I'm going to be signing up for something that might potentially end up being much worse for me than my mild Covid infection - I've read so many people talk about unfinished trials, unknown effects of MRNA, conspiracies to hide side effects or silence people who've had them etc etc and want to know why if people didn't truly believe what they were writing they would want to scare people about the vaccine?