Want to survive COVID-19? Get the vaccine as soon as you can
Here’s the thing:
If you get the COVID-19 vaccine - the Moderna one, the Pfizer one, the soon-tobe-onshelvesnear-you Johnson & Johnson one - you are not going to die.
I don’t mean you’re not going to die from the vaccine (although you certainly won’t) - I mean you won’t die from COVID-19. You also won’t be hospitalized with COVID-19.
This fact - and it is a fact - has been woefully underreported, so I’m here today to unwoeful it. Listen: Of the 75,000 people who were part of the vaccine trials, zero of them - zero, zilch, nada, zilch ended up in the hospital with COVID, never mind dying.
This is different from the widely reported “efficacy” numbers being bandied about. Moderna has a 94% efficacy, Pfizer 95%, Johnson & Johnson 66%. Those numbers - which are all wonderful - mean how effective the vaccines are at completely preventing you from getting COVID-19 in the first place.
But it also means you still have a chance to contract it. Like the J&J vaccine, one out of three people exposed to the virus will still catch it.
But all of the vaccines - as well as the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, not yet FDA approved - prevent the virus from getting serious.
And again: Zero people in the world have been hospitalized or died from COVID-19 after getting vaccinated.
“One day, like a miracle, it will disappear,” former President Donald Trump said on February 27, 2020. Welp, he was kind of right. The miracle has arrived, and it has been delivered by science.
But he was wrong in the fact COVID-19 is not going to disappear, especially due to the fact that 30% of the nation says they have no plans to get the vaccine, according to a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.
This is depressing, as vaccine hesitancy is going to keep the virus rolling around, which will allow politicians to keep things in a state of partial lockdown. You want life to get back to normal? Get vaccinated the first chance you get.
But I’m screaming into the wind. Here’s a sampling from Facebook comments I got when I asked, “Are you not planning on getting the COVID vaccine? And why?” Their answers in italics, my response below each one.
1) It is a waste considering, you can still catch the virus.
Yes, but you won’t die from it.
2) Hank Aaron and Larry King both died within 2 weeks of getting the vaccine.
Hank Aaron was 86, Larry King didn’t get the vaccine, but he did have COVID-19, was a cancer survivor, had diabetes, and he was 87.
3) I will not take a government injection that took months to create. It’s just another form of the flu.
It is not a government injection, the mRNA tech for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines has been studied extensively for over 10 years.
4) I was all signed up but chickened out when I started seeing the articles, posts and sickness from the vaccine.
You will probably feel lousy after you get the second dose of the vaccine. That’s your immune system working.
5) Not getting it I don’t think we have enough information on side effects down the road yet.
Fair enough, but we do have enough information on what COVID-19 has done to millions of people worldwide.
6) No I haven’t been sick in years.
I haven’t been in a car accident in years, and I still wear a seat belt.
7) Nope!! Can no longer trust the government after the voting fraud.
I mean, just … come on. Listen: The science is clear on the vaccine. It will prevent you from getting very ill and dying from COVID-19. Are there risks? Maybe, maybe not. But the risks of COVID-19 are clear enough. To me, this is a no-brainer. Live, and live freely if we all get the vaccine. And if we don’t? More of us will die, and we’ll be wearing masks for a long time.