Vaccine

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My wife is a doctor and she says every medical procedure or treatment is a balance of the risks against the benefits. So everything from taking a headache pill to brain surgery is a balance of the risks versus the benefits. And if you think about it, even getting out of bed in the morning is a risk we take in anticipation of certain benefits. And what makes a doctor a doctor more than anything else is that they understand these medical risks and benefits much, much better than we ordinary mortals do because they are exhaustively trained in this risk-benefit analysis for very single treatment and procedure. There is also a risk in having a vaccine but if a doctor is telling you get a vaccine you should get that vaccine because you would not be told to take it if the benefits of taking it did not vastly outweigh the risks. Case in point: there is a fuss over blood clotting in women who took the astra zeneca vaccine. So they advised women between 12 and 50 to be careful. That is because women during their child bearing years are filled with estrogen which makes their blood more coagulable otherwise they would bleed to death every month. A very few women are extremely hypercoagulable and need to be careful when taking astra zeneca because it can affect blood coagulation and cause clots in hypercoagulable people. So women under 50 who take astra zeneca, have an 8 in 14 million chance of having a dangerous blood clot, but with proper observation the problem can be spotted quickly enough to be fixed. So they advise women of that age either not to take astra zeneca or to watch very carefully for any symptoms of blood clotting if they do take it, just in case they are one of the unfortunate few who are hypercoagulable. But guess what? Covid also affects blood coagulation and causing blood clots is one of the ways it can kill you. So if a hypercoagulable woman does not get vaccinated and gets covid, she has a 1 in 5 chance of dying from a blood clot. So even if you are one of the few hypercoagulable woman, what is more rational? To take a vaccine with a miniscule risk of blood clotting that can be controlled or get a verv widespread and highly communicable disease with an extremely high risk of blood clotting that often cannot be controlled? Men don't even have that risk at all because we don't need estrogen. So you can be irrational and avoid vaccines thereby exposing yourself and others unnecessarily to all sorts of nasty and risky diseases or you can be smart and get vaccinated. There is no medical reason for 99.9% of people not to get vaccinated and believe me, if there are medical reasons, your doctor will know because its what they do. And have you ever lived in a third world country where there are very few vaccines available? I have and it wasn't pretty. Is it doctors, and in particular, immunologists and epidemiologists who are publishing scare stories on Facebook about vaccines? Consider the source before you make a foolish decision about vaccines that puts yourself and others at a completely unnecessary risk. Don't be a selfish dummy - get the damn vaccine. The sooner we all get it, the sooner this nightmare will be behind us.

Why - you've got the jab.... great you're immune so why worry about me?