The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

Again, none of this means the vaccine is unsafe and the benefits of taking it vastly outweigh the risks, but one simply cannot say there are no risks and this is 100% safe because there no way for us to know this.

By the same measure, though ...

• Are there long-term health impacts from asymptomatic COVID?
  
• Are there long-term health impacts from being on a ventilator?
  
• Are there long-term health impacts from doing too many Zoom meetings?
  
• Are there long-term health impacts from ingesting microplastics and nanoplastics?
  
• Are there long-term health impacts from living in a house with solar cells on the roof?
  
• Are there long-term health impacts from eating cannabis edibles?
  

There are many questions to which we don't know the absolute answers, and yet they don't stop us living our lives making rational decisions.

Today's molecular biologists have far greater understanding of the COVID virus behaviour and infection mechanisms, and the antibodies required to repel it, than could have been imaginable just 30-40 years ago. That, in combination with the hundreds of thousands of people who have participated in Stage 3 trials, and the 2B or so people that have been vaccinated, put the currently-approved vaccines on a level of safety far beyond most pharmaceuticals that have been approved in the past few decades.

Science is never absolute, and there will always be new discoveries, but the safety of these vaccines -- based on current scientific knowledge -- really is very, very high.