When you were in your 20's, would you have taken the Covid vaccination?

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136. Oh hell yeah.

I once took aspirin with Coke because my friend told me it would get me high. (It didn't.) I had friends who bought pills on the street in the late 60s and early 70s and took them not having any certainty about what they even were. In some ways we were just as gullible as today's 20 somethings but on the side of better living through chemistry. We thought we were invincible in that a little drug wouldn't hurt us. I'm also of the first generation to get the Salk shot having had 2 cousins with nonparalytic polio. Many of today's are more afraid of the shot than the disease. Some feel invincible in their own health and immune system but some are terrified of the consequence of the shots. They say they are being smart but down deep many of them are absolutely terrified.

Most scientists will tell you there are no drugs without some side effects. Some are very very mild and most are temporary. But when you weigh the costs and effects. Now I have at least one relative who has a very terrible side effect to a cancer drug, but even knowing that she would take that chance again. She is living her life and the alternative is unacceptable. In my 20s I never thought there were consequences to just about any drug. They either worked or they didn't.

With the help of today's internet and Fox and its clones, people are well aware of drug side effects, but they way blow up the number of real occurrences and lie and spread false ones without consequences.