[thatsamonad]

> more likely to be carrying it anyway due to misbehavior

I’m not sure about that. I’ve been pretty strict about physical distancing, mask wearing, and all of the other things necessary to help combat the spread of the virus. I’m also someone who gets a flu shot every year and I make sure my child is vaccinated.

That being said - I am majorly skeptical about a vaccine being rushed through the approval process for political reasons and how safe it will be for me and my family. I may refuse it if it seems like it will do more harm than good and/or the process isn’t transparent and the safety data aren’t made available.

[ithkuil]

Makes sense. Yet, in our current hyper-polarized climate applying fine grained, measured judgement is increasingly hard; if you are for or against X, you're automatically assumed you belong to one of the few camps that carry that flag

[Tainnor]

I don't know about the US, but at least in Germany, no vaccine is being "rushed through". What is happening is that we're pumping a lot of money into the process in order to expedite it and remove idle time - for example, typically pharma companies wouldn't start preparations for a phase 2 or 3 trial before the previous phases were successful due to the high likelihood of failure. Now they will do precisely that, allowing them to save time, at the risk of having wasted a lot of resources for nothing if the previous phases do indeed turn out to be a failure.

[bmitc]

I meant not getting the vaccine on the basis of someone not believing in the virus and/or vaccines in the first place.

Of course, I will also cautiously approach the first vaccine arrivals due to the nature of them being rushed.