Are you willing to get the Covid vaccine when offered?
It is proven that the shot doesnt eradicate the virus.
The vaccines don't need to eradicate the virus and, indeed, were never meant to.
No vaccines eradicate a virus. What vaccines do -- at a
societal level, not a
personal level -- is deny as much safe haven to a given pathogen as possible. This doesn't mean eradication. This doesn't mean people stop getting infected. "Denying safe haven" doesn't even mean people stop getting sick from a given pathogen.
Denying safe haven means that when as a virus moves through
society, it's fought off by antibodies sooner and in greater numbers. People who do get infected have generally milder symptoms and shed virus for less time. The virus has to transmit through tighter and limiting constraints through a vaccinated society than an unvaccinated one.
All this has to be evaluated at a society-wide level, not a personal level. None of the "
I know someone who ..." stuff matters a whit. Some
one had the vaccine and got COVID a month later? Statistically, that's supposed to happen. Some
one took the vaccine and afterwards was too tired to get out of bed for a few days? Statistically, that's supposed to happen. Some
one took the vaccine and coincidentally had a stroke two weeks later? Statistically, that's supposed to happen, too.
Vaccines, you see, are a society-level tool, not a personal-level tool. "
Just get the vaccine and you'll be protected -- why worry about what others do?" No to that, because a vaccine's effectiveness depends on a high percentage of society taking the vaccine.
Take a well-known vaccine success story -- the polio vaccines that became widespread in the 1950s. When someone took the polio vaccine, did they become "bulletproof" against polio? Not at all. What happened was that a high percentage of kids got vaccinated in a relatively short time. Polio was once able to move through society in wide open spaces, unfettered. After widespread adoption of the polio vaccines and an ongoing child vaccination effort that has never let up since, polio's safe haven was reduced to a spare trickle through a kinked garden hose. But it took a dense network of vaccinated people to wrestle polio down to the ground like that. Not onesie-twosies getting vaccinated for themselves here and there.