[Blackstrat]

The IFR in my age bracket is less than 0.5% according to CDC. That’s on par with a bad flu year. Why would I take a vaccine that was rushed to market, hyped by bureaucrats, and which promotes viral mutations (look up peer reviewed research regarding ADE). So in my mind, a very risky cost-benefit equation.

[quetzlbazaar]

I am not vaccinated either so playing Devil's advocate. I have not seen anything convincing regarding a risk of ADE for the vaccines as they are used in production. As far as I can tell, ADE could potentially happen for your natural antibodies as well.

Also, although the vaccine was "rushed to market" relative to the normal process, perhaps the normal process for approving vaccines was overly slow? Maybe as a society we are too conservative in general with things like vaccine approval, and in fact (if you take that these vaccines aren't particularly unsafe which you may not) we were wrong before and the process for how these new COVID vaccines were approved is closer to the "right" speed.

The widespread vaccination as is happening in the West specifically targeted against the spike protein will lead to an evolutionary pressure on the coronavirus to mutate its spike protein. I think all things considered though this is just something we can accept. As the mRNA vaccines were much more suited to quick, mass production it made sense to use them and they are effective at stopping people getting seriously ill.