The flu hasn't bothered me since I was a small child, and I'm not interested in fixing that which ain't broke. Maybe when I'm old and feeble I'll start taking the flu shot, but for now I have no reason to subject myself to those injections.
I have received many vaccines, including covid. I don't get vaccinated for shit I don't care about.
The framing of people who don't get every vaccine offered to them as "anti-vax" is ridiculous. Have you been vaccinated against rabies, on the off chance you run into a bat? No, I really doubt you have. The risk is small so you round it down to zero and stop worrying about it.
Vaccination can still be helpful to the immune-compromised people around you (like me) even if you’re hale and hearty yourself.
If I can catch flu or Covid a couple fewer times over a lifetime because the healthier people around me were vaccinated, or masked, or installed better ventilation, that would likely improve my life quite a bit.
(I say this with no judgement, just to raise awareness of something I assume you haven’t considered, and I hadn’t much thought about myself before I was personally affected)
More readable analysis by Johns Hopkins said, "vaccinated people infected with the delta variant can carry detectable viral loads similar to those of people who are unvaccinated".
I asked a question about why the injections were so objectionable to you, and then compared vaccination to insurance, which I think is a reasonable comparison. If you act this defensively every time someone poses a question about your stance, it is no wonder you feel persecuted.
I didn't say anything about insurance, nor have I said that injections are "so objectionable" to me. What I've said is that I don't get flu shots because the risk of the flu is too low for me to care. You may not like that answer, but that is my answer and that's the only one you'll get.
> I didn't say anything about insurance, nor have I said that injections are "so objectionable" to me.
You said you don't want to 'subject' yourself to the injections, and I brought up the insurance comparison.
I think you may have an issue with abstract thinking. It is something you might want to look into improving. It seems that when you don't understand something, instead of asking for clarification, you get defensive and become kind of unreasonably difficult. You will probably end up happier if you don't come across as a jerk when the reality is that you just need help parsing what other people are saying because you have trouble thinking conceptually.
It’s becoming increasingly evident that vaccinating annually as has been the suggestion for decades may in fact cause vaccines to become less effective for you personally over time which can be bad if you develop another health condition that puts you at high risk or as you age generally. The theory is that it is due to negative interference:
“The idea is that the antibodies produced in year one may neutralize some of the vaccine in year two’s shot before it can trigger a full immune response, explained Dr. John Treanor, a vaccine expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.”
