Gene therapy alters your genetic material. The covid vaccines do not, they are not gene therapy. The vaccines give your cells a code to create the spike protein and spit it out into circulation. More traditional vaccine development would have taken years to develop, study, manufacture. This isn’t to say the mRNA vaccines are superior to a traditional approach (they may or may not be) but that this avenue of getting widespread immunity was clearly the best avenue.
Focusing on deaths alone really diminishes the severity and cost of the disease. Sure 99% survive but in the 99% are those with long term complications, those that came to near death experiences, those that hospitalized and recovered completely, those that had mild symptoms and sought treatment, those that had no symptoms and sought treatment, those that didn’t seek treatment whatsoever. That’s still a lot of cost and burden to the healthcare system.
The domino effect of having this disease linger is immeasurable. Many routine preventative care measures are still being pushed back. Personal choice only goes so far. It is a personal choice to get vaccinated but it is a personal choice that affects a lot of people.
For those questioning fertility there is an easily found study from a urology group that found the disease to be found in reproductive tissue and decrease fertility in many male patients. Conversely there is evidence the vaccine does not affect male fertility. Also who wants erectile dysfunction?
Some of that is stated in jest but there is good quality hard (see what I did there) data that can be found if you look. It’s difficult for laypeople without medical background to find and interpret data. That is why we turn to and listen to medical professionals when we seek advice. What percentage of medical professionals recommend the vaccine? Has to be near upper 90s % as I have yet to encounter more than one or two in person.
