Sorry but I'm not taking the vaccine....but I have good reason and no it's not some conspiracy theory balogna, it's moreso my own common sense. Allow me to explain. I'm 31 and have taken 2 flu shots since I was 16. The one I got when I was 16 destroyed me and gave me the flu for two weeks. The last one I took was 2 years ago after I developed type 1 Diabetes (an auto immune disorder) because my Dr. recommended it. After that I was so sick for 2 weeks I was literally laying in bed dying/tripping my behind off.
FWIW - And I bet that after taking the flu-vaccine, if you told your doctor that you got the flu from the flu shot, the doctor said "You can't get the flu from the flu shot". Why would I bet that, because I've been there, done that. However, if you go to the CDC web site and look at the adverse reaction symptoms of the flu-shot, surprise, they are the EXACT symptoms of the flu. Every time I have taken the flu shot in my adult life, I have had those symptoms. They are worse than the flu, IMO, so I told my doctor I am never having the flu-shot again, and I finally got him to stop f'in pestering me every year to get it. To top it off, the last time I got the flu-shot (about 4-years ago) including an extreme reaction to the shot, I then got the flu, too, because, apparently, they guess wrong about the strains of the flu in the shot that year. I was out from work for a week with the flu after getting the flu shot. So, I don't bother to get a flu-shot especially since they are, at best recently, 25-30 percent effective.
With the way that my body reacts to the flu-shot, I don't buy into that autoimmune crap - my immune system certainly reacts quite strongly to flu-shots.
I'm hearing all across the news about all these side effects of the covid shot. I'm hearing these same stories from my actual friends I know online/irl about how they feel funny, their arms feel like someone is trying to rip it off.....you name it. Since covid has been around I've been going out in public with both a mask on and off depending on what decision I feel like making. I've never had covid as far as I know, but I have been sick during this time period, very sick......but I'm not dead and I've been MUCH sicker in my life compared to that.
I decided to get the COVID vaccine (Pfizer), though. I barely had any symptoms except for a sore arm. (I credit, in part, meditation for the lack of symptoms - FWIW) That was tolerable. I also had the booster, same symptoms sore arm and nothing else.
The COVID vaccine is completely different in the way that it operates from the flu-shot. Perhaps that is why I had almost no symptoms. Is it a guarantee I won't get covid? NO, but all scientific evidence points to the infection being significantly less intense if someone has had the vaccine before they get it - especially people like me - I also have insulin dependent diabetes.
So tell me.....why would I get a shot? Logically tell me. Other peoples' safety is not the correct answer. If I can run around with an auto immune disorder and not die probably says something about this whole covid thing. Perhaps I'm tempting fate.......but the last two times a needle went into my arm it destroyed me for weeks, therefore I'm not getting it. No conspiracy theory balogna, just my own common experiences.
Its certainly your choice not to get the shot. However, I think that there is a substantial amount of mis-information out there that people take too seriously. Sort of like hearing of a murder in an area of a city, and refusing to go there because you think you will be murdered when in reality, your chances of being murdered in that area are lost in minutia.
According to this paper -
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-predator-virus-exploits-frailty-ill.html
The death rate increase across all groups increased by the same amount regardless of underlying conditions.