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by tekknik 1581 days ago
The COVID vaccine is not the same as other vaccines. One can have hesitancy towards the COVID and other mRNA vaccines and go get the flu shot the same day. If you want to solve the hesitancy problem you must recognize this first, otherwise you’ll be stuck in a loop like you are now, demanding they’re safe just like every other vaccine in history.
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fortuna86 1581 days ago
mRNA isn't new (it was discovered in the 90s), and has been arguably studied far more than other types of vaccines. Also, there are non-mRNA COVID19 vaccines available as well, if that is your issue.

Accounting for both these facts, how is vaccine hesitancy justified ?

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tekknik 1581 days ago
> mRNA isn't new (it was discovered in the 90s)

Actually the 1960s, and yet I’m still not wrong as the first mRNA vaccine approved for use was Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. So an actual large scale usage of an mRNA vaccine just happened.

> and has been arguably studied far more than other types of vaccines

Gonna need a source for that.

> Also, there are non-mRNA COVID19 vaccines available as well, if that is your issue.

> Accounting for both these facts, how is vaccine hesitancy justified ?

And this is covered by a lack of fear of the virus. Many people have caught it and recovered, substantially more than have died. So therefore the vaccine is not needed.

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