Will you get the COVID-19 vaccine?

[Mr. Illini]

Assuming it obtains full FDA approval and priority populations get priority. You are offered the vaccine - do you trust it?

For me, yes (sane, not anti-vax)

[Sir Mohamed]

Once it's available and I can get it, I will for sure take it.

[MATTROSE94]

Once it's available and I can get it, I will for sure take it.

Same here. I expect to take one probably in May or June of next year.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Not right away but later on, it's gonna trigger flu like symptoms eventually, leave it to the person who needs it like the homeless and elderly

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Yes, as soon it's approved by the FDA and available to the public.

[Illiniwek]

Of course. Not sure when the best moment to get it will be, but I will sometime next year.

[Tender Branson]

I think so yes.

Not sure which one I’ll be required to get though ... depends on which vaccine the Austrian health insurance system will purchase.

Probably the Biontech one I guess.

[HillGoose]

Yes I’d take it right now i don’t even care if it’s not safe yet, death is a preferable alternative to continuing to live in covid lockdown social distancing hell.

Literally going to be in line day 1 because I just want this to be over and everybody to forget it ever happened

[RINO Tom]

You don’t have to be an anti-vaxxer to be cautious about the most rushed vaccine in history, and I think you know that.  Even if it’s “demonstrated to be safe,” we’re largely using our best guess as to its longer-term side effects, as we literally haven’t had enough time to intensely study them.  There is nothing insane about a healthy, younger person with no high-risk conditions making the calculation that there might be more risk to him, personally, in taking the vaccine immediately than contracting COVID, even if that turns out to be true.  It should be obvious that one’s situation should affect this answer somewhat.

With that said, I will likely get the vaccine at some point if it is required to do certain things.  Otherwise, I’m in no hurry.  I don’t spend time with high-risk people, I’m young, I have no pre-existing conditions and I have already had COVID.  Sorry, lol.

[Del Tachi]

Probably not, since I've already had COVID and the long-term side effects are a big unknown.

This isn't like taking a polio or TDap vaccine

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

I don't know. Do I really need a vaccine for a disease that over 90% of people who have it survive?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

We already have it, but Fauci says 2022, not 2021 will be the yr of reopenings. We still gotta be social distancing, we can't go back to normal and start the whole process of superspreaders again too quickly

[Mr. Illini]

You don’t have to be an anti-vaxxer to be cautious about the most rushed vaccine in history, and I think you know that.  Even if it’s “demonstrated to be safe,” we’re largely using our best guess as to its longer-term side effects, as we literally haven’t had enough time to intensely study them.  There is nothing insane about a healthy, younger person with no high-risk conditions making the calculation that there might be more risk to him, personally, in taking the vaccine immediately than contracting COVID, even if that turns out to be true.  It should be obvious that one’s situation should affect this answer somewhat.

With that said, I will likely get the vaccine at some point if it is required to do certain things.  Otherwise, I’m in no hurry.  I don’t spend time with high-risk people, I’m young, I have no pre-existing conditions and I have already had COVID.  Sorry, lol.

Yes, I do know that someone who refuses it is not anti-vax more broadly, but assuming it gets the full backing of the FDA, European equivalent, and other medical institutions, refusing it is similar to those that refuse other vaccines.

I’m not going to shame people for being nervous about it - everything about this pandemic is new and unprecedented. However, I am worried that mass resistance to the vaccine would cost many, many lives, so I hope that the government does a good job of getting out ahead of it and educating the public. I’m not holding my breath, though, given our government’s performance in handling this pandemic thus far.