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I haven't been vaccinated yet, solely because the vaccines are a super special emergency measure and not a regular thing. I would have taken a super special emergency vaccine last March, when all of the current vaccines existed. I'm not taking it now. There's no reason to. I live in New York. We haven't had a real outbreak since last Spring.
Making the drug companies fully immune is a policy decision, and that policy decision has consequences, and one of those consequences are that people like me won't get the vaccine. It's not worth their immunity now. The crisis has passed, regardless of what the media hype is. The crisis passed the moment the media started using relative rather than absolute numbers. I don't give a shit about how much the positive test rate has increased in the last week. I care about how many cases there are.
I've always said that I'll get the vaccine "next year," when it's a normal vaccine, like the flu shot. Until then, I'm not getting it. I have less risk from COVID than I have a chance of winning the lottery. Asymptomatic spread doesn't exist because asymptomatic people don't have symptoms that make them expel virus.
I would love FDA to approve the vaccine earlier, so that I could get vaccinated, so that I could stop lying to the women I fuck, but until then, my life continues as normal. I have a fake vaccine card to get into bars and shows, and I tell my tinder matches I'm vaccinated. In June, I was fully honest about my vaccination status with all of the women I saw in person, and only half of them cared (half of the ones that cared still fucked me, but later said that it "bothered them more than they thought" that I wasn't vaccinated, so no real loss).
If they approve the vaccine and still indemnify the drug companies, I won't get it, but I don't see how that could happen, and I don't think it's likely.
