Just listening to this episode now. I'm not an antivaxxer. In fact I work in vaccine manufacturing and have received both the moderna and Pfizer vaccines as well as a third booster, but this evidence is really making me think twice. I've always dismissed the noise on both side side of the political spectrum about the risk of the vaccine as just that, noise, but I'm now wondering if my trust was misfounded. I really hope I am wrong and we don't see a huge increase in cancers containing these DNA signature down the road. I will not be getting another injection of either of these.
I'm wondering if both the host and guests have taken the vaccine and what there thoughts are in that.
I got the first two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech shortly after they were first distributed. I got infected with Omicron 8-9 months later, which produced milder symptoms than those the second dose induced. I did not get any subsequent boosters and don't plan to. Since I'm not at high risk of severe COVID because I'm healthy I don't see much benefit in doing so given that the technology is so new and we clearly do not know as much as we might like to think we do about the full range of its biological effects.
Thanks for the reply. This is pretty scary and I find it really frustrating how difficult it is to find real information between the people who are conspiracy theorists and those who feel anyone who says anything negative about the vaccines must be silenced. I get the need to discourage misinformation, but it feels like if you have questions about the safety of the vaccine you are immediately looked at as a wingnut or antivaxxer. I feel like this is the really danger of conspiracy theories. They make it so that there is a vacuum between the nut jobs and those trying to discourage them where real information disappears into the void.
I got the first two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech and stopped after that. Got infected with the Omicron variant about nine months post-vax.
Just listening to this episode now. I'm not an antivaxxer. In fact I work in vaccine manufacturing and have received both the moderna and Pfizer vaccines as well as a third booster, but this evidence is really making me think twice. I've always dismissed the noise on both side side of the political spectrum about the risk of the vaccine as just that, noise, but I'm now wondering if my trust was misfounded. I really hope I am wrong and we don't see a huge increase in cancers containing these DNA signature down the road. I will not be getting another injection of either of these.
I'm wondering if both the host and guests have taken the vaccine and what there thoughts are in that.
I got the first two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech shortly after they were first distributed. I got infected with Omicron 8-9 months later, which produced milder symptoms than those the second dose induced. I did not get any subsequent boosters and don't plan to. Since I'm not at high risk of severe COVID because I'm healthy I don't see much benefit in doing so given that the technology is so new and we clearly do not know as much as we might like to think we do about the full range of its biological effects.
Thanks for the reply. This is pretty scary and I find it really frustrating how difficult it is to find real information between the people who are conspiracy theorists and those who feel anyone who says anything negative about the vaccines must be silenced. I get the need to discourage misinformation, but it feels like if you have questions about the safety of the vaccine you are immediately looked at as a wingnut or antivaxxer. I feel like this is the really danger of conspiracy theories. They make it so that there is a vacuum between the nut jobs and those trying to discourage them where real information disappears into the void.
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