I trust my doctors.
I look it this way, in one year the government came up with the Covid vaccine to save millions of life. We shouldn't expect perfection. Some people are going to get side effects, but many more will be saved. Kind of like the TV commercials where the drugs they sell has a multitude of side effects. The government also didn't want people to panic. Maybe mask wearing was kind of like a security blanket for the masses. When I look back on Covid, I was really scared. Who wasn't?
Not to belabor this; yes, anyone with preexisting conditions/older people should have been vaccinated.
I think Fauci and others knew that just about everyone was going to get COVID. The masks and social distancing were bullcrap. And they knew that all along. People were told to put on masks to give them a security blanket and avoid panic. In retrospect, it was likely better to get COVID and develop some natural immunity while you were young and healthy than to dig a bunker and jump in to put it off. I do think some people developed a mental issue over the topic. They are still wearing masks to this day. Among other things, it became a symbol of resistance to Trump. The whole thing was politicized and bungled. Instead of shutting down the entire country - which I'm convinced was done for political purposes to influence the election - the emphasis should have been placed on protecting the elderly and unhealthy. Those folks should have been isolated. Everyone else should have gone about their business, got the virus (as they eventually did) and moved on. It was inevitable that many people were going to die. Nothing anyone could have done would have changed that. Closing businesses and schools just compounded the harm.
Jason I would never deny anyone's right to choose to have the Covid jab, particularly someone like yourself and with your health concerns.
Hi Doug
We do have the advantage of hindsight but folks like Fauci were paid millions to spend their entire career preparing for such an event. They were either completely clueless or intentionally promoted pain for political purposes. Once it became clear early on that healthy people would only have minor illness, the resources should have been shifted to protecting those most at risk. Instead idiots like Cuomo actually sent COVID patients into nursing homes. No matter what they did large numbers of people were going to die. That was just the reality of the situation. It was a novel virus that spread quickly. No politician, however, was going to admit that and risk panic but that made it pointless in my opinion to close down the country. In terms of the vaccines, I don't have any problem with them. I don't think they should have been forced on folks, though. Everyone should make their own decision based on their personal health history and situation. I got the COVID vaccine and booster in the first year but haven't recently. I do get the flu vaccine every year because I got the flu several years in a row and it was miserable. Far worse than COVID in my case.