Title is question, but to clarify my assumptions:
- Vaccination is a numbers game, and the odds are in your favor that the vaccination will protect you over you get a side effect or an allergic reaction/shock
- An infection like covid/flue can damage your body long term, not even speaking of long covid etc.
- To the best of my knowledge it has been shown that flue shoots lower the risk of dementia later in life, wouldn’t it be a good enough guess that a covid shoot decreases risks for this too
- Even if we only assume a covid vaccination is highly to reduce your sick days for only this year, isn’t it a rationale tradeoff to get vaccinated, just to avoid 1-2 weeks sick?
- Given the security of covid vaccinations, I feel like they have been scrutinized and tested extremely well and to the best of my knowledge it was checked that nothing of the vaccination remains in the body after a few weeks (for the argument that nobody knows the long term effects of RNA vaccination)
Again my question: Why doesn’t the WHO or don’t most countries recommend covid vaccinations for everyone? Are there any health/medical reasons? Are there financial reasons? Are there any countries/governments which recommend the covid vaccination for everyone and not only the ‘vulnerable groups’?
Edit: Just to add, I am living in Germany and right now we have a big wave of children flue, where children even die in the hospitals and the children hospitals are near their limits. It seems common sense to just put flue/covid vaccination into every child/adult, to avoid situations like this.
I’m in one of the more liberal areas of the US, and as far as I’m aware, the local hospitals recommend covid & flu shots for everyone in the fall, not just vulnerable populations. I’ve never had any trouble getting covid/flu shots in the fall, and they used to even come to our office to offer flu shots to everyone. I think by this time of year though, they may only be recommended for vulnerable populations due to supply issues.
I have a slightly off topic question of my own: is “flue” a regional spelling? I have always seen it as “flu”, and searching for “flu vs flue” is just giving me results like “cold vs flu”.
Wow, nice! Do you have to pay for the shots or do you get them for free?
Sorry, ‘flue’ is just my incompetence at using the English language, it seems I also learned that it is ‘shot’ and not ‘shoot’.
I have a super bad German accent when I speak English, and although I hope I have a descent understanding of the language, I couldn’t write a sentence with correct spelling/grammar if my life depended on it.
Thanks a lot for chiming in!
No, don’t apologize; your command of English is far superior to my grasp of German!
(about all I can say is: “Ich spreche nicht Deutsch” and “Sprechen sie Englisch?” – and when I put those phrases into Google Translate to check myself, I found that I had the wrong word for ‘Englisch’ – I thought it was something like Anglit!)
In the US that’s a tricky question because for the most part our insurance will cover it at 100%, so it feels like they are free shots because you can walk into a pharmacy, get a shot, and walk out without having to pay. However, we pay a lot out of each paycheck for that insurance (those of us lucky enough to have a job that offers decent insurance).
I’ve always gotten them for free, but through health insurance. I believe there are some resources available to help uninsured people to get them for free, but the added hassle often deters people.
No worries about “flue”, I understood what you meant, and that’s the primary goal of language. There’s definitely some other English words with regional spelling variations (grey/gray, tire/tyre, color/colour), and many other confusing, similarly spelled words (lose/loose, bowl/bowel, descent/decent 😉). Have you heard about spelling bees? Spelling vs. pronunciation in English is so inconsistent that it’s one of few languages where holding them makes much sense. I bet they’d be pretty silly to hold in German!
Indeed, I have heard of spelling bees, but never thought about the reasons they exist in the US. Thanks for enlightening me! :-)
For what it’s worth, a flue is an adjustable opening in a wood stove or similar, Kernspalt in German according to Harper Collins. Now you just have to work the conversation around to the efficient use of a wood stove… 😄
I don’t even know the German word, but can confirm, wood stoves are a thing in my neighborhood, as I am reminded every time I open my windows in winter time. ;-)