I'm no anti vax but this covid vaccine got me feeling sus

Fearing a second round of this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories#Cutter_incident

  • QuillQuote [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I mean it is a perfectly normal thing to panic about tbh. Human psychology is not made for percieving threats to ourselves on this mass scale or even accurately assessing risk based on information, its the same reason people are scared of flying and not of driving despite the actual risks being completely reversed compared to people's impulse perception

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In that sense then yeah but people should probably filter out their impulses a bit before reacting to something and putting it on the Internet.

      • QuillQuote [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Agreed, it's bad to uncritically share that impulse with others, but there's no reason to feel bad about momentarily freaking over something in and of itself, that's a normal human thing not something to be ashamed of was my point

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          OK I agree with that. What I don't like is the now frequent posts here by people freaking out about it, which obviously influence people and I don't like where it is going, because vaccines are simply the only thing that will end this, and if people freak out and refuse to get vaccinated based on some bad impulse then it's never gonna end.

    • mine [she/her,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      True, and given that the potential outcomes of people hesitating to get a vaccine has a lot more at stake than someone hesitating to get on a plane, we need to be more careful about adding fuel to people's fears.