This vaccine just barely came out – they don’t know how effective it is yet – and yes the young and healthy will probably not get the vaccine. If they don’t work in the medical field, aren’t going to school etc it is very unlikely that they will be forced to get it just like they don’t get the flu vaccine. Those people who are the most vulnerable should and will which hopefully will protect them. And this is the priority for the vaccine being given currently.

You’re the one who said, “If I am not compromised and am young and healthy why should I have to take it?” You also claimed that you’re not getting vaccinated would not affect others. In order to establish herd immunity to COVID-19, a high percentage of the population will need to be vaccinated, with the estimates I’ve seen ranging from 70-85%. As the virus continues to mutate and become even more transmissible, that’s the only way we’re going to be able to curb this pandemic. I always get a flu shot, too, and recognize that each year’s flu vaccine is formulated anew, and administered soon after approved, just like these new coronavirus ones. If anything, we should be more eager to get the COVID-19 vaccine, since it’s more effective than the vast majority of flu shots, and the coronavirus is so much more contagious and deadly than the flu.

Typhoid Mary. I wear a mask, work from home, don’t go to bars, fly, eat out. No one is getting anything from me – I am also not young – 59. So wrong on all counts. I always get a flu shot, but not wanting to get this vaccine quite so soon –

There’s precedent for this. Given the nature of my work I have had to have a number of vaccines, as part of the OSHA requirements for safe work places. There are work-arounds if someone absolutely refuses to get the vaccine (there are religious exemptions), but often the work-around is not pleasant. I knew a guy who, for religious reasons, could not shave, on a site where rescue respirators were located every 50 feet in case of emergency. The work-around was that if anything went wrong, he was to immediately don Level A PPE. In the South. Regardless of time of year. He thought it was worth it, but me? I shave. I know another person who refused some vaccines, and they weren’t allowed to work on certain sites. Eventually they found that they didn’t have enough work to remain employed at the company. It wasn’t an attack against that person, it’s just the nature of the work.

I’m a bit unclear on the terminology here. Does the 90% number mean you are, as an individual, 90% less likely to get ill from the virus? Or does it mean that 90% of the people who are vaccinated do not get ill from the virus (within a certain time window)? It doesn’t really matter–the vaccine is still important to get–I’m just unclear how that number is calculated.

By not requiring employees to be vaccinated, employers are taking on the responsibility of not providing a safe workplace for their employees.

Give it up, Typhoid Mary. The young and healthy ones who think none of this applies to them are a major reason why America is going to end up losing half-a-million of our population — mostly unnecessarily — to this pandemic.

Blanket statements don’t change facts:

As of 11/1 of this year (taken directly from Johns Hopkins):
US population: 330,500,000 (approx)
Cases: 9,126,361
Deaths: 230,556
Percentage of cases to population: 3%
Percentage of death to cases: 2.5%
Probability of contracting: .028
Probability of death if contracted: .025
Probability of death (all cause): .001

Any may I remind everyone that a majority of those deaths were people that had co-morbidity. Is it sad, sure. But the numbers tell a different story that this thing is nowhere near the calamity and hysteria that’s been pushed.

So, as a risk management exercise I find the cost/benefit to fall on the side of NOT getting it.

So then aren’t you the candidate to take the vaccine and be happy about it? If I am not compromised and am young and healthy why should I have to take it? You took it to protect yourself so me not taking it should not affect you right?

I’m not making any thing up. Visit who or cdc and look at information about the vaccine. It is way too early to have answers to these questions.

If we don’t know if it stops transmission, we don’t know if it prevents you from getting it – then again I ask why get it?

At my company we can work from home – easy to continue that rather than force employees to get a vaccine that was rushed.