I will come out and say it - I voted for President Trump, and I have my own reasons for doing so.
However, I do agree - his covid response was absolutely atrocious. His flip flopping, downplaying, and politicizing of the pandemic makes me sick. There is no excuse for his pandemic response. Maybe - just maybe - I agree with not wanting cause mass panic and his belief that the cure can not be worse than the problem makes a little sense... Everything else is garbage.
Something else I thought about when reading this post was the term “anti-vaxer” and how it relates to the covid vaccine. If someone has educated and objective concerns with the current state of safety data surrounding the covid vaccine - I have full respect for that position. I am actually quite shocked at the ACOG position statement on pregnant women. They state the benefits outweigh the risks. Up until last week, the covid vaccine has NEVER been used in pregnant women - hence the risk is unknown... how can we make a risk/benefit statement when the risk is unknown. This is just one objective concern I have with the vaccine.
With that being said, I take all vaccines, I get a yearly flu shot, and I received my covid vaccine 5 days ago. No one can call me an anti-vaxer. The simple truth is, you can not compare this vaccine to any other vaccine we used in the past. We are going into uncharted territory with this thing and I understand 100% if there is some apprehension with taking this vaccine.
I took the covid vaccine and I understand 100% that this is investigational drug technology and could have zero long term side effects, disastrous long term side effects, or somewhere in the middle. I do not pretend to know the answer to this.
This is a leap of faith - it’s interesting to see “science” start to resemble “religion” in the masses