You guys are missing the point. If vaccines grant you immunity against the disease, take it, why force me to take one if I don't want to? If I get rona and die, that's on me. Genuine question.
A. Some people that are immunocompromised can’t take the vaccine and they are gonna be pissed off if they get COVID (and maybe die) from someone that had the opportunity to take it and didn’t.
B. The longer it stays around, the more chance it has to mutate which is usually considered not good. It may mutate so antibodies gained are no longer effective or some other effect is present which isn’t good. Therefore, getting above the vaccination threshold where it can no longer replicate is a priority.
C. Even if you don’t die, long term symptoms like decreased lung capacity, “brain fog”, etc. aren’t good so not getting COVID gives you the absolute highest chance to avoid those effects and the vaccine gives you a very high percentage chance of COVID immunity.
I’ve heard two arguments against the vaccine which are not trusting the government and side effects of the vaccine.
A. Some people don’t trust the government because, in America, at one point and time they covertly tested things on the American people. Thankfully, in this instance at least, the vaccine has been certified and tested by multiple governments around the world who have it in their interest to make sure that this is a legitimate vaccine.
B. Again this is in America at least, people are worried about the side effects. There are reports that one of the vaccines causes clotting which is true. However, it was an absolute tiny amount of people who had specific circumstances. This lead governments to temporarily halt the roll out just to confirm that this occurred in a tiny percent of people. Some vaccines have applied for full certification instead of just emergency clearance. That means that not only have millions upon millions of people have testers the vaccines, the companies are certain that nothing is wrong with the vaccines. Also I’m going to be honest, extremely long term side effects are not known but side effects, in general, of the vaccine and of these types of vaccines show that there are very minor chances of anything developing.