Thank you
@pjelacki . I hope you will get your turn as well. It will be much easier even after the first shot. Viral vector vaccines (Astra Zeneca and Sputnik V) and mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) offer great protection even after the first dose. Two weeks after the first shot, and you will already have the first antibodies. Classic inactivated vaccines (like the one that I got) need more time to build immunity, but it's there.
Anti-vaxxers are on the rampage here as well. As someone with a scientific background, I have a huge problem with the fact that they are actively pushing people into their doom with lies and manipulations. Most of them are vaccinated, but they don't want others to take the vaccine because they have pollitical ambitions/they have a supllement business that needs to flourish/they are simply bad people. So, I am trying to fight them whenever I can.
I can understand some people's concerns and it is natural to be skeptical about new things. For example, I can understand that some people are concerned with "vaccines being rushed too quickly" (I hear this often), but there is an explanation for that, and it is not a problem for me to provide explanation if needed. There are several reasons why it was possible to develop the vaccines faster than ever before, but they are not rushed, nothing was skipped, and every vaccine passed through all stages of a regular clinical trial before being approved by the FDA and then EMA for us in Europe.
But when someone says "don't take the vaccine, it will change your DNA and you will die", that's a lie.
Anti-vax doctors are a league of their own. We have 2 "big" anti-vaxxers with medical background. One is a university professor and he used to, indeed, be one of the best pulmologists in the country. Right now, however, he lost his mind. When the pandemic started, he said this is "the funniest virus in human history" and advised women to go shopping in Milano. Last summer, he said "now is an ideal opportunity for everyone to come out and get infected". And unfortunately, some people listened to him, they got out and got infected.............and then they died. And three people that I have known also lost their lives because they were listening to him
Herd immunity via "natural" immunization is a terrible idea for this virus.
I will write more in the following days...