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Vaccines really don't work unless you get everyone who can take them...
You see what happens when you don't in parts of the country and the US were the MMR nonsense took root, people ending up in hospital (or worse) for things that a couple of decades ago we thought were basically gone because of how well the vaccines worked.
in some ways vaccines worked too well, people forgot how dangerous a lot of the "normal childhood diseases" actually are because they'd not seen what happens without vaccination in their lifetime.
MRNA as a technology is safe (or as safe as many other medical interventions that people don't think twice about), IIRC the reaction people have to the covid vaccine is largely due to the protein that is used to train the immune system, and that protein is the same one you find on the virus, the difference being that if you have the vaccine you have a tiny controlled amount of that exposure and it's not relying on your immune system learning to respond to it at the same time the live virus is actively damaging your cells.
From memory other MRNA vaccines use slightly different methods.
Basically writing off an entire technology for medicine because one application has a potentially higher side effect rate than others is fairly silly.
My sister, partner and daughter all had it a few weeks back.
They were feeling unwell and picked up some of the tests from me (left in a box by the door
), as I think my father and I have finally trained her not to visit if she's unwell, after she visited whilst my niece was ill and her partner was ill at home. I think the shock of my father ending up hospital with the flu, and seeing how badly it affected us for the next few months shocked her.
