My belief in vaccines has certainly been destroyed the past years, and it puts one in a troubled position when you go against the status quo and prevalent medical ideas.
I didn't get the covid vaccine, while my wife did when she was in residency. With another kid on the way in 8 months, I...no longer believe in vaccines. At all.
So are we as a community against all vaccines now? Or just the covid one?
The only route I see for myself is bring the evidence and sit down and have a discussion. I feel that if I so strongly believe this, and I let my child get vaccinated, then I am a fucking weak man, and have failed my child.
All thoughts appreciated.
I was a registered nurse: 43 in hospital, and 4 years inout-patient. 1994 I was strongly encouraged to take the hepatitis B vax; with the 3rd shot I suffered permanent vocal cord damage. This was when I began to get suspicious. After 2010 we were strongly encouraged to take the yearly flu shot, I declined. Then they started requiring masking, if you refused the flu shot. I worked around it, I won’t tell you how, but I was not going to take the flu shot nor mask. 2021 the hospital system mandated the Covid and flu shot and wanted us to sign a release that our vax status could “be shared with any entity to further their business model.” I refused and retired 2 months early. With the increase in childhood vaccines and increase in autism, if I had it to do over, I would never vax my children.
Thank you for your standing your ground for what was right. I'm in the medical field too and thought I was going to lose everything.
How fair was it for health care systems to fire workers, hire unvaxed travel nurses, and now those who got vaxed are being worked to death with unsafe patient:nurse ratios? It isn’t only nurses, but also radiology techs, etc. For me, it wasn’t a hard choice because I had months ago told my boss I was retiring at the end of 2021. I just left 2 months earlier. For the younger workers, it was a more difficult decision. But if you are dead or seriously injured, you wouldn’t be working to pay those bills anyhow. No employer has the right to control your body and I hope those who got the Covid shot sue them all into oblivion. They were being coerced and without full disclosure of side effects.