I do not have a medical education and in no case can I be an authoritative source on such issues. Be that as it may, the meaning of vaccinations, as I understand it, is that a strongly weakened strain of a certain disease is introduced into the body, which subsequently gives a person some advantage.Why bother get the shot?
What would be the benefits?
At least judging by the locals (I'm only talking about Russian territory, I've never been to any foreign hospital in my life, and in Russian, to be honest, I was only many years ago when I worked in catering, it was supposed to to do some kind of vaccinations, though I didn’t think to ask what and from what diseases, they just injected them into me and that’s it. Before that, I was still in the hospital, but it was only an examination that is carried out for those who can go to serve in the army. It is carried out so that the seriously ill are not taken to the service, because they are weak and will not be able to serve normally).
So, if i take a local (I have no idea what happens in this respect abroad) vaccination against, for example, stomatitis - it is quite effective, because everyone who did it, swimming in dirty water (ponds, rivers) with broken knees and other small bloody wounds - did not die and did not hurt. At the same time, in the same cases, the child, having accidentally broken his knee, subsequently died of tetanus in the hospital, and the doctors could not save him.
There is also a whole bunch of very unpleasant and dangerous diseases, completely cut off by timely (in advance) vaccination.
As for covid, I can’t say anything here. There is no long-term experience in the use of such vaccinations in the world yet. Yes, I do not have medical knowledge (I repeat, I am not a doctor), and it is difficult for me to judge this from a scientific point of view.
So, from outside experience ... My deceased neighbor was not vaccinated, he died. But a timely vaccination would have helped him - I do not know.
If i take famous people here, there is a certain Putin who defiantly made himself vaccinated. His work, as I understand it, is connected with active communication with people and traveling around the country - i.e. he is clearly more likely to contract covid than me, who sits in the forest and communicates more with geese and goats than with people)) Be that as it may, it is quite clear that Putin is alive and not sick. From this we can draw some cautious conclusions that either the vaccine is more or less effective, or he is just the same as me and does not get sick for some reason.
If i try to think logically, then it is extremely unlikely that the state would like to get rid of taxpayers by releasing some kind of poisonous, harmful vaccine. In Russia, they are generally very concerned about the lack of population and in every way promote families with a large number of children, then they strongly prohibit tobacco in public places, alcohol, and for soft drugs they can even get a very long prison term, and even with the confiscation of all property. It got to the point that we have become a pronouncedly homophobic state only because same-sex couples cannot reproduce (have children), and therefore they have been oppressed here in every possible way. And for those who give birth, for no apparent reason, they began to pay considerable amounts of money. Well, that is, not for work, but just like that, here someone gave birth to a child, so he is given some kind of "maternity capital". Frankly, this amount exceeds the amount that I will earn in a whole year if I get a job (I am a lazy person and do not work some years yet).
In general, I can assume that the vaccine still provides some advantage. However, there is one nuance - in some people the body is so weakened (advanced age, poor-quality and insufficient food, bad habits, bad ecology, etc.) that it is even dangerous for him to administer a vaccine. And a full-fledged virus can completely kill him.
My deceased neighbor was a good man, but he was of advanced age, and often drank alcohol, in addition, he had harmful, hard work in the city. Perhaps this was one of the key factors due to which his body could not stand the disease.
But. I repeat, I am not a doctor at all, and I can only voice absolutely unscientific conjectures. I'm not going to claim anything with responsibility.
Personally for myself, I decided that I would give up on everything and leave everything in the hands of the state. The state has doctors, scientists - so let them think for me on this issue. When there was a vaccination, I could not come, I was very overwhelmed with housework, and now it has been canceled and left at will. And I confess I don't know. On the one hand, I have nothing against being vaccinated, on the other, I am unbearably lazy to go there, if only because for this I will have to walk 10 kilometers through the forest, since I sold the car many years ago (and if i go along the highway then it will be 27 km). It is possible, however, to hire a taxi, but I do not want to pay for a taxi at all.
Such is my careless attitude towards vaccination. When I finally get to the hospital - I will most likely get vaccinated, but for now I do not have the opportunity. Another vaccine that I would obviously like to inject is the rabies vaccine, since there are a lot of wild foxes in the local forest. It turned out a strange situation - I inject my dog with a rabies vaccine received from a veterinarian, and for some reason I am too lazy to get a rabies vaccine for myself, because it is closer and easier for me to get to the veterinarian than to the doctor. Once it got ridiculous, once I was bitten to the blood by a dog, and I was treated not by a doctor, but by a veterinarian. What kind of covid vaccine is there if I'm probably a little crazy.
In other words, this story was simple - the dog received a severe cut on the roofing iron, which I did not think to remove, and I had to urgently put this dog in a taxi and take it to the veterinarian for an operation. Everything worked out, but the dog basically didn’t want to get into a taxi, and when I pushed it, it bit my hands until it bled. I went to the veterinarian, and one veterinarian performed an operation on the dog, and the second veterinarian turned around my hands, from which blood flowed no less than from a wounded dog.
The dog made a full recovery. Well, so do I. Lol.
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