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Sometime this past summer, after they had started giving the mRNA vaccines, there was a study, I think in Nature, that showed that the mRNA vaccines were producing a memory cell response that appears to leave cells in your bone marrow that recognize SARS-CoV-2, and may keep adapting to possible mutations of it that might appear, well after your antibody levels drop. Which excited people. One thought I had, though, was, something new lurking in people's bone marrow. ...How fucked up will it be if 3, 4, 5 years down the line we start seeing a marked rise in lymphoma cases?

That's not a prediction. There is no evidence that is going to happen. But I'm actually sympathetic to concerns about long-term effects. These vaccines are untested and we have no history with them. We won't know until we get years down the line and find out that they were safe.

Where I come down on it, though, you do pros and cons columns. ... Any possible long-term effect is a con for sure, but it's not a certainty. So nobody should be weighting it like a certainty when doing those pros and cons. It should be a concern. To be weighed against a lot of things we actually do know.

What is a certainty? If you get Covid without any immunity, you are at serious risk, as in there is a real chance you will end up on a ventilator and / or dead. And it spreads easily. And from a societal standpoint, if we had gotten everyone innoculated quickly, there was a chance we could have snuffed this thing out before it had a chance to keep mutating and staying ahead of us. Unfortunately, we didn't, because people don't seem to be invested in applying the kind of reason to the question of getting vaccinated that I saw as fairly cut and dried. I'm with you on that. I don't see how if you are using reason, intsead of superstition or emotion. ... 98 percent of people wouldn't make the decision to get vaccinated, even acknowledging that we don't know if there will be unforseen long-term effects.