The words from a couple visiting San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter over the weekend were in one way chilling and yet could be what a lot of people are saying after the year or more we’ve all been through.
Asked about their concerns about their safety after last week’s deadly shooting in the Gaslamp, they didn’t seem that concerned at all, telling a reporter that basically you can’t worry about everything, because there’s a risk in everything.
And then there was CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria over the weekend making a point about risks verses rewards, saying there is a very tiny risk of any serious side effects from the COVID vaccines compared to the benefit.
Pointing to the fact that less than a 10th of a fraction of people who have had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine had blood clots and even fewer than that fraction dying of it, compared to the substantially higher fraction of those who are still dying of COVID-19 every month in the U.S. And now there are fears that worries about very small risks could affect how quickly we get to herd immunity and the end of the pandemic.
A new survey (see below) has come out that says about 25 percent of Americans are saying they won’t get the vaccine or are hesitant about getting it.
As that couple in the Gaslamp indicated, life is filled with risks, from every time we work around the house, or get into a car or play a sport.
And the risks in those examples, while still small, are greater than getting the vaccines.
But until enough of the population gets the vaccine, the pandemic could linger longer, and that would be nice not to have to worry about.
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