SAJ-99
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My basic belief is nothing should have been mandated, but there are all kinds of exceptions I have a tough time arguing against - Military and school vaccines, etc. You talk about "shares" so I guess you were at a public company. Union or at-will employee? If at-will, if you work for a corporation, you have to play by their rules. There were ways to avoid getting it. Do you have a history of allergic reactions? If so, you were exempted as a protected class.This...I was 4yrs from retirement and Vax was mandatory to keep my job, unvested stock amount was enough to make me get it so I could keep my job. My thought was I had put way more questionable substances in my body in college...I got it around 4pm was checked into the hospital by 2am...had an severe alegic reaction, had covid 3 or 4x since never was as sick as I was from the vax. I just treat Covid like all the crud I pick up..Couple pulls of Jack Daniels and some rest...
Honestly who has time to take a poll these days? Have you ever been contacted? I have few times and hung up because I didn't have the time. They call during the day while at work or in the evening when I am bussing kids around for activities. Polls are useless these days...maybe not totally useless but definitely bias towards folks that don't have a lot going on.
I was forced to take the Vax to keep my job...too close to retirement and too many unvested shares to quit. Vax sent me to the hospital due to a reaction, had to spend the night on IV to get all the fluids back in me..The J&J Vax I took has now been discounted due to complications it caused...Since I got the vax I have had covid at least 3x maybe 4, lost count..All my covid spells were nothing, flu like symptoms for few days, compared to 8hrs my body spent evacuating fluids out me by any orfice available. So forgive my vaccine skepticism.
I did make a nice profit on MRNA, if you cant beat them join them...got in around $100 sold most of my shares at $400...got a few shares left it closed at $120 today....
No vaccine should ever been mandatory, people body's are too different...Hell how many folks were crippled from the polio vax back in the day?
JNJ vax was pulled because higher probability of GBS.
It is easy to play Monday-morning QB and I you can drift into counter-factuals pretty easy. Chance of an allergic reaction was around 0.4%. Chance of dying from Covid around 0.8% (maybe higher if you look at odds at the time of first vaccine). Both small odds, but one works toward reducing spread (and deaths) and the other works toward increasing it.
I am all about choices. If someone elects not to get the vaccine and they get very sick from COVID and require hospitalization should insurance be allowed to refuse to cover?
I don't answer the phone if I don't know the number, so no surveys for me. I agree polling has become much more unreliable, not just in politics but anything. Only the angry typically want to have their voice heard. But what else do we have?
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