@hansw I am not a anti-vaxxer, I have all my vaccines and in general support most vaccines and feel it is stupid not to get a vaccine.

However in this case it is special. We rushed the vaccines through the normal regulatory safety checked, we did this purposefully and this isnt disputed. While normally vaccines are tested in small groups for years and only released after enough data is know to ensure its safety, that is not the case here. They did what safety checks they could in a very reduced time frame and released a medication that normally would not be considered safe or ethical to allow mass consumption.

Vaccines and medications that do go through the proper safety checks are usually safe and for most people it would be stupid not to get them. But in this case it is akin to medical testing en masse and throwing the bulk of the safety out of the window. To assume someone who wont get the vaccine is an anti-vaxxer seems ignorant of the situation to me. The idea taht society would apply society and even legal pressure to force people to take a drug that hasnt went through the proper safety checks is even more alarming and is a pattern that should be pushed back against.

To give you an idea the average time to market from the initial proof-of-concept for a vaccine to release is 10 to 15 years. 5 to 10 years of that is narrowing down the 100s of inert viral candidates, and another 5 to 10 years of clinical trials to ensure safety... we are talking a 6 month safety trial as opposed to the 5 year minimum here....

As such my answer is, no I wont get the vaccine not untilit has been out in the general public for many years and I can be assures there are no long term health effects. While most vaccines are safe that is **only** because they were tested for so long on small populations and long term effects (5 year+) are already known. I will not sacrifice that.

I am not anti-vaxxer, I am anti vaccine without clinical safety trials. Since I feel uit is morally wrong for a society to put social pressure on people to take a potentially unsafe drug in order to function in society I would do everything in my power to ensure such questions by a group are not considered acceptable. I am not sure i would do any of your answers though. I would likely do my best to try to find a way not to answer, or answer in a way that is misleading.. like "Who in their right mind WOULDNT get the vaccine", and then after the even publicly announce the true answer so people know where I stand and why i oppose the criteria in the first place. Though I wouldnt be comfortable with straight up lying if i could at all prevent it, but if push came to shove I might in a group setting, though less likely in a one on one setting.. Not sure, my ethics about honesty on this one are hard to judge.