Convince Me To Get The Vaccine

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11. The Pfizer and Moderna types of vaccines have been tested for years -- just not for this

particular virus. And Pfizer wasn't even part of Trump's P.R. nightmare, the Operation Warp Speed. Pfizer started developing their vaccine, using the technology they had developed years ago, in conjunction with Germany, before Trump even started pushing vaccines. Pfizer refused to get involved with Warp Speed because they wanted to make it clear that they weren't being driven by anyone's political schedule. All they did was finally, last summer, agree to sell the US some doses if it got approved.

With regard to J & J, it's just a standard vaccine technology -- the same kind that's used for flu viruses. And there's nothing new in general about coronaviruses. It's just that this one is a particularly nasty one.

Also, with regard to long term trials, we get a brand new flu vaccine every year. And the new flu vaccines don't go through long term trials that last for years.

As far as the pain is concerned, I think your boyfriend is pulling your leg. I barely felt mine go in, and that's what I've heard from others as well. But here's a trick that I taught my kids. Distract your brain with another feeling that isn't scary. While you wait for your shot, trace circles with your fingernails on the sensitive side of your other wrist. And if you're doing that when the needle goes in, your brain will be so busy feeling your fingernails on your wrist, it will hardly notice that needle going in your other arm.

With regard to long term effects: remember that the Moderna and Pfizer don't contain even a weakened form of the actual virus. And don't forget, in any calculation you make, that there are possible long term effects of COVID 19 itself. And we know some of them are terrible.