Just curious because I just came from a Christian forum that thought they were evil for the most part. I'm already vaccinated myself though.
Its a personal decision and each person needs to decide for themselves if they want the vaccine and think its benefits outway its side effects.
I had the virus already---so I don't think there any benefit for the vaccine for me-
“Vaccines actually, at least with regard to SARS-CoV-2,
can do better than nature... They are better than the traditional response you get from natural infection,” White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a COVID-19 briefing in May.
Exactly why vaccines appear to generate more robust immunity than natural infection remains unclear, but Dr. Sabra Klein, a virologist and professor of immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said infection and vaccination work in different ways.
“The immune system of people who have been infected has been trained to target all these different parts of the virus called antigens. You’d
think that would provide the strongest immunity, but it doesn’t,” Klein said. “The Pfizer or Moderna vaccines target just the spike protein — the part of the virus that is essential for invading cells.
“It’s like a big red button sitting on the surface of the virus. It’s really sticking out there, and it’s what our immune system sees most easily,” she continued. “By focusing on this one big antigen, it’s like you’re making our immune system put blinders on and only be able to see that one piece of the virus.”
In other words, vaccines work to strengthen immune responses gained during natural infection; that’s why health experts advise people who’ve had COVID-19 to still get vaccinated."
^^ This is why you should get vaccinated even if you already had a prior infection. Not to mention, not all infections produce the same level of antibodies in every individual. One benefit is that a prior infection and getting the vaccination will give you many times more antibodies than someone who just gets the vaccine. Hopefully the above will allow ppl to understand the science between the vaccines and natural immunity. There's more to it, but that's the gist.