Will you get the covid-19 vaccine when it comes out?

@Fleura Do not worry, I know almost everything about the vaccines because one of my cousin is a Professor in Pharmacology and we have discussed this matter more than once. I am not going to get the one by Pfizer.

This vaccine was produced quickly because researchers around the world had been planning for just this sort of thing ever since the SARS and MERS epidemics several years ago. They had realised that coronaviruses were a big threat and had created the basis for a vaccine and then they just had to wait for the gene sequence of the virus in question and slot it in, basically. As soon as China released the genetic sequence they were able to select appropriate parts and start testing. And testing was faster than usual because, with the virus being so widespread, it didn't take long to try it out on hundreds of thousands of people. Normally you might vaccinate a person and then have to wait and see whether they came into contact with the virus, and they might not, but with Covid-19 there was a very high chance that they would so it was a good test and results came quickly.

@LadyDuck If there is a choice, I would prefer the Oxford/Astrazeneca one because it works in the 'traditional' way.

@indexer Have you looked into it? Apparently 80% of those hospitalized had a vitamin d deficiency. "Experts say that healthy blood levels of vitamin D may give a survival advantage by helping people with COVID-19 avoid a cytokine storm... As to why scientists might keep this quiet, I'll just leave this quote from Churchill, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

@indexer Vaccines tend to mess with the immune system.

@indexer And I don't think your opinion matters to me or the general public, because I was never saying I am spitting 100% facts. I was expressing myself from my own perspective and what I experienced. Vitamin C and D greatly boosted my immune system when I had COVID-19, thus helping me defeat it faster.

@eshtreef here you can get it unless your a medical worker other wise you have to wait.

Most people will probably take it optionally, but some people just don't wanna rush first, they want to see it tested first on medical workers for example.

@eshtreef Older people need it so give them. And health workers.

Seems like we share the same opinion.

@mrki444 When it arrives in my country, health workers are the top priority for getting the vaccine, and of course the elders afterwards. My grandmother although 84 year old, she's very eager to take the vaccine. I just love the enthusiasm in the older generations. They have seen things in life. Even at such old age, they still don't give up and happily hang to life with big positivity.

@eshtreef For me it is. I keep safe, don't you worry. Got Lysol spray and cleaners as well as bleach too. Double masking too.

Good for you guys. I hope your choice is the right one

I hope so too

Good I hope everything goes well

Those at the top of the chain will survive. The oligarchy of course, how not surprising..

Yes I also think it depends on the country of origin the vaccine comes from. I would not take a vaccine from Pakistan for example. It is not racist, it is just there is a difference between the health experts of Israel,USA,Russia compared to Pakistan or any other third world country for example that doesn't have a history of medical achievements.

@Genipher When you think of the millions of lives that have been saved by vaccination against polio, smallpox, measles etc as well as many other diseases, I think it has had a bigger impact. Yes Penicillin was a big change but prevention is better than cure!

Really? I would have said penicillin.

Of course, as long as it is a carefully researched and scientifically approved vaccine.

Nice for you. I do believe the Canadian government knows what they are doing

@eshtreef

Yeah but people should grow up, while I do understand that Trypanophobia exists in the minds of many people, it's not like they are going to get induced with a vaccine for hours, it's just a one pricking.

@eshtreef yep people who choose to not get it also choose to not work which in my opinion is dumb.

@Fa_Maverick Yeah nobody in their right state of mind would risk losing their job over a vaccine, that's been approved by the majority of countries in the world.

I understand you. The vaccine will not be obligatory, but you would not be able to go at work if you are not vaccine, therefore indirectly making it obligatory.

Sucks for you that you are forced to take it. Hopefully that it will help get rid of the pandemic in your country tho.

Yeah, I think its for the better if we first wait to see the effects and then decide if we want to get it for ourselves or not.

No we are not obliged to take the vaccine. Just because you want to do it, doesn't mean everyone will or should. We have constitutional right to refuse taking it.

But the Pfizer vaccine already came out? At longest, it will take by the end of 2021 for most of the countries in the world to posses it. So I don't know what you mean by "it will take time to come out"