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I would happen to be an over 40 immunocompromised by MarkinSeattle
with a 9 year old nephew who is immunocompromised. I have been in the hospital for approximately 4 weeks in 4 stays including a week and a half in the ICU over the last year and a half dealing with three distinct different heart conditions.
Your hyperbole was inflammatory and intended to demonize those who have not received the vaccine. Calling people names is not “hyperbole”, it is just demeaning and insulting. Hyperbole is increasing scale.
My county has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country, yet the cases have recently surged. There is no correlation between cases in highly vaccinated areas and rates of COVID. I interviewed a guy a month ago who was home with COVID after being fully vaccinated in April.. Hopefully I am wrong however it doesn’t appear that this is going away no matter what percentage of people are vaccinated.
As for concerns about the vaccine, there are many valid reasons to be concerned. Anecdotally my brother lost a 42 yo college buddy to a stroke a couple weeks after getting his vaccination. The odds of that is less than 1 in 50k. Yet my sister lost a coworker who was also 42 yo to a major stroke within a week of getting his vaccine, same odds. The odds of that happening to two friends of my siblings within 3 months of each other would seem to be exceedingly high. My sister has a childhood friend who just turned 40 who was diagnosed with a very rare cancer of the fat tissue (she runs marathons and eats healthy). Her specific cancer type is a 1 in 250k likelihood, even more odd is that they found 6 different distinct cancer strains of the same type of cancer in her system. She works in the medical field and was vaccinated in Feb and had a grapefruit size tumor appear in the month leading up to the diagnosis in April. She has been told she should get her affairs in order. I manage an employee who for the last four months, starting approximately 2-3 weeks after being fully vaccinated, has woken up every morning with a 102+ degree fever, it dissipates by the afternoon. They have run him through every test and diagnostic machine they can and haven’t been able to figure out why.
All of these things are just exceedingly rare happenstance. Were any of these caused by the vaccine or their bodies reacting to the vaccine? Who knows, technically the answer is “no proof”, but if look at all four proximities to getting vaccinated, it has to make you wonder how much greater the odds of two people dying of a 1 in 50k stroke that close to getting a vaccine, certainly higher than 1 in 50k. One thing that I have learned after two week long visits to the ICU is that it is okay to ask questions and there are some things the medical community isn’t sure about. People should thoroughly investigate and only make decisions they are comfortable with.
Having said all that, if I get the approval to get a vaccine I will. I am personally at a very high risk if I get this thing, however I am also in a very high risk group for having an issue from the vaccine (myocarditis and periocarditis) as well. One thing that should be apparent to everyone is that this isn’t going away no matter the number of vaccinations. That is exceedingly obvious, especially with an effective rate of just 63% by vaccines against the variants. If you believe that in your son’s case he is better off getting the vaccine, then I hope you get that chance as quickly as possible. But don’t fool yourself into thinking this thing will disappear because enough people were vaccinated.