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Re:Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines by est31 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:41PM (#27986746)
Some viruses take decades to show harm as well, e.g. HPV, and there are theories that herpes is involved in Alzheimers.

Maybe we'll realize in a couple of years that even asymptomatic covid harms your heart so much that affected people lose years of their lives? The vaccine seems like the safer choice to me.

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Re:Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines by freedomben on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:07PM (#27987263)
Yep, excellent point. We don't know the long term repercussions of getting covid either, so avoiding the vax because of unknowns may end up being the riskier position.
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Re:Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines by chris_va on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:57PM (#27988097)
Agreed, there are only 2 options:

- Lipid nanoparticle delivering mRNA expressing 1 protein (vaccine)

- Lipid nanoparticle delivering mRNA expressing many proteins (virus), that has severe short term side effects

Odds are much higher than the virus has worse side effects, but we will not be able to wait and see. Waiting just defaults to the second option (with all of its known negative externalities).

(yes, there are other types of vaccines too, and a discussion of which vaccine to take seems completely rational)

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