Contracting COVID led to lasting effects like fatigue and breathing issues. The author faced vaccine access challenges as a non-ruling class member. After awaiting eligibility, vaccination was achieved with Moderna shots despite concerns about rapid rollout and side effects. The initial hesitation towards vaccination stemmed from the speed of development and testing, causing doubts about potential long-term effects. However, medical experts suggested the immediate benefits of vaccination against COVID outweighed those uncertainties.
The vaccines were rolled out quickly by for-profit corporations and emergency use authorization were issued to allow their deployment.
Surviving COVID is supposed to grant long-lasting immunity, and being fired would be far more dangerous than getting COVID again.
Vaccination hesitance was rational due to limited testing timescales and uncertainty about potential long-term side effects.
Medical experts made educated estimates that the short-term benefits (not dying of COVID) outweigh any likely long-term effects.
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