bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
i'm an "antivaxxer" now, despite having ~10 different classic vaccinations.
i don't want to take a vaccine which is a new technology that hasn't been tested enough as there simply wasn't enough time. you can tell me that all the tests have been done, but you can't accelerate time to test for long term effects. we don't know half of the things really going on in cells, only in june there was discovered that there is a polymerase transcribing from RNA to DNA [1]. it may not be relevant for the mRNA vaccines because it seems to require a certain primer sequence, but one of the "nothing can happen" arguments was that "RNA-to-DNA isn't possible.
i'm fine to wear the masks in public. they of course help, even if the virus is smaller than the filter because they are so small that things like van der waals force are relevant. i'd probably be fine with a classic vaccine. those will never be available here though.
the people having the guts to call me "antivaxxer" now are the same people who couldn't wait to have parties, travel all around the country for christmas and to go on vacations. while i stayed at home nearly all of the time. the simplest measure of "not going anywhere if not required" was too much. now _i'm_ magically the asshole for not wanting to undergo a medical procedure which _i_, to a large certainty, don't need and which doesn't even seem to prevent that i unknowingly spread covid. [2]
[1] https://phys.org/news/2021-06-discovery-human-cells-rna-sequences.html
@kino i'm not sure if i'd take sinovac, but likely the cuban one(s). the cuban medical program is widely accepted as good science and they are a small enough country to not fuck that one up because there is something at stake for them.
i won't get neither _here_ though.
@kino yeah, it's nitpicking :)
I should be allowed to make informed medical decisions about my own body, and I am actively requesting access to safe, well-understood, traditional vaccines vs. being thrust into a clinical study for experimental drugs with unknown long-term health effects manufactured by corporations with abysmal track records who have been given legal immunity in the event of negative outcomes. That shouldn’t make me “anti vax” or “anti science”; I shouldn’t be oppressed or ostracized for making that decision.