You are in good company in your vaccine hesitancy. Even though the current variant is widespread around the world, several countries are not giving the vaccine to people in many age groups (up to 65), like Norway, Australia, and Denmark, among many others.
Some additional evidence that the spike protein generated by the mRNA shots go to every tissue in the body and causes inflammation. Remember with the vicious COVID rage mob threatened anyone who said the spike protein does not stay in you deltoid muscle. This has been proven false. However, I am sure there are some places (Google, Snopes, Facebook, AP, ABC, CBS, etc...) where this science is called misinformation.
Firstly, I am not hesitant about getting the vaccine. I just dont see a point if my current circumstance is low risk (low cases in the city and low social interaction) and previously had a vaccine dose earlier this year.
Secondly, not sure where you get your information about Australia - because vaccines are very much recommended to people below 65 years of age, especially vulnerable cohorts. The bivalent one has just been made available to Australia as well and I'll be getting it later this week (I am 40) in preparation for a holiday next month where my risk of exposure to the virus will be many fold greater than what it is currently. My previous vaccine was done early February. If covid is still a thing next year, I might get another vaccine by the winter and just get them yearly. I'm not worried about dying from covid - but I dont want lingering sequelae issues which happens to a not insignificant amount of infected
https://www.health.g...-get-vaccinated
Fourth dose
You should get another COVID-19 booster dose, also referred to as a ‘fourth dose’, if you have had your initial booster dose 3 months ago and you are:
- 50 years or older
- 16 years or older and a resident of an aged care or disability care facility
- 16 years or older and severely immunocompromised
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and aged 50 years and older
- 16 years or older with a medical condition that increases the risk of severe COVID-19 illness
- 16 years or older with a disability..
A fourth dose is also available to people aged 30 to 49 years old if they choose.
It's a take it or leave it recommendation. Just health advice.
Also, the idea that fragments of mRNA leave the deltoid muscle is not new information. It has been found in breast milk from a study that was published in November 2021
https://www.frontier...021.777103/full
I would hazard a guess that you get less 'spikes' around your body from a vaccine injected into your deltoid then you do with a full blown sars-cov2 infection that multiplies by the millions invading and destroying cells as it goes. Worried about a single cov2 spike outside the deltoid? Well the actual virus has ~2 dozen different fully functional spikes that will go wherever your blood goes. So not sure why you think this 'science' would be called misinformation. It has been documented in research papers since last year.
Honestly, I'm more worried about the increased rates of plastics and PFAS found in breast milk than picograms of mRNA fragments which would have zero impact on the baby. Saliva, stomach acids and digestive juices would more than deal with it - even if it were completely intact and in doses large enough to solicit an immune response. But it is neither intact and no where near a dose required to stimulate a response
The reason we dont vaccinate orally is because it would get destroyed and be useless. Same if the vaccine was injected into the blood. Destroyed too quickly. So a baby ingesting fragments, and picograms at that, is a non issue. Given the fragments were not detected after 48 hours (they checked for 5 days) it says to me the body excretes it rather quickly. It also wasn't found in every mother. You would also think that with the mRNA in the human breast milk... The storage conditions even if it survived intact to get there, would also degrade it. Warm temperature, enzymes etc.... Then babies saliva, stomach acid and digestive juices.....
Article about PFAS found in breast milk. I'd say this is a bigger concern but it seems people dont really care I guess?
https://pubmed.ncbi....h.gov/33982557/
People still buy non stick cookware and the plethora of other products that use it.... No one up in arms about babies ingesting these chemicals...
Anyways..... In a few days I'll get the bivalent vaccine. I'll let you know how it goes