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[quote=Anonymous]For me, the options were:

1. Get Vaccinated
2. Don't Get Vaccinated and know I might get COVID, no matter what I do to avoid it.

There were no compromises in my mind. Staying home / social distancing / etc. meant nothing to me since I'm going to the doctor every 4 weeks and know that I might get exposed, especially with the low vax numbers in pregnant women (who are in the waiting room/ seeing the same staff).

I trust vaccines, medicine, and the process that went into developing this. My father is a physician and walked me through how mRNA vaccines work so I felt comfortable getting it.

I then read stories like this and know that no matter what happens in 10 years, I did what was right for today.

https://mississippitoday.org/2021/08/12/covid-mississippi-gulf-coast-hospitals/

"Dobbs said the state reported 36 deaths on Monday due to COVID-19 or complications from the virus. Eleven of those deaths were of people under 50, he said. Three of them were in their 20s. Two were pregnant women. All were unvaccinated.

Bond said that in his hospital system, a woman who was 34-weeks pregnant and lost her baby while in the hospital with the virus. There is a 27-year-old patient with the virus who just gave birth but has only Facetimed with her baby.

“She made it to the floor, out of the ICU, but yesterday we had to put her back on the vent,” Bond said. “I don’t know if she will ever get to see her baby or not.”

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Yes this was in a low vaccination state, but with the way variants are spreading, this could be the northeast in just a month or two. I'm risk averse and the risk of getting COVID outweighed any potential risk with the vaccine.

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