Observations on Covid Vaccines

1. Cross infection of Covid has occured before in quarantine hotels in Sydney and Melbourne - when will authorities learn? 2. Covid infected people can show no symptoms until later in the course of the infection. 3. There is no clarity that Covid vaccinated people cannot get infected, only show no or less symptoms of Covid. I reflect - I still can get infected with the common cold even after getting my dose of the related vaccine. 4. Covid contact tracing can be a useful tool, but can trigger sudden lockdowns, border restrictions and a flurry of more testing in Australian states. 5. Travellers can be caught in ensuing logistical consequences if they find themselves on the wrong side of Australian state borders. 6. The long term side effects, if any, of Covid vaccines are still unknown and yet to play out. Any so called medical or scientific interference with our human bodies take a longer time than these current crop of covid vaccines to be tested. So called "medical experts", bless them, have kept changing their advice and opinions on Covid since the pandemic began. 7. Covid vaccines started to be given out in desperation by governments unable to control the infection spread of Covid - and the need to revive the economy, air travel and consumer spending. 8. No liability is given by the Big Pharmas to us as their vaccines are approved by governments under emergency conditions. In Australia, Sco Mo has committed overly to Astra Zeneca vaccines and now seem to be pushing strongly to use millions of such dosages asap. 8. Governments and medical bureaucrats talk of weighing risks vs benefits of using the vaccines, but they may not be referring to our personal risks. 9. Any successful version of vaccines used in the past against a variety of diseases required a minimum of 5 years to mature. Our current arsenal of Covid vaccines require on going modification to tackle new and mutated strains. 10. Vaccine versions work best after the end of an outbreak, not during the course of a pandemic. The latter versions of vaccines do better manage any evolving mutations and strains of Coronavirus. 11. It can be a hard personal call and judgement to decide taking up these current Covid vaccines - preexisting health issues, our lifestyle exposure, whether we are on the frontline mixing with crowds everyday, whether our government restricts our movements if we are not vaccinated, whether we have Covid vulnerable people in our household, whether Covid infections are spreading in our community, etc. 12. At this stage, I would wait and monitor, never say never, never say yes immediately, we keep on thinking for ourselves. 13. And I am one who has been taking the well tried common cold flu jab every year, but more hesitant about the Covid vaccines. #yongkevthoughts

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