Why I chose to get the vaccination.

Petaluma CA

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I support every persons right to choose to get vaccinated or to not get vaccinated. I am a healthy person. I eat very well, I am very active and I have no health issues. I very rarely get sick. I have not had any vaccine since I was a kid including the flu shot. I consider myself a VERY low risk of contracting covid. But there were a few reasons why I chose to get the vaccine. 1. I did it to help protect the people around me. 2. The long term effects of covid can be very detrimental to a person health. In the off chance that I were to get covid, I do not want to risk the long term lung damage and breathing issues associated with the virus. 3. I have a feeling that we are in for more rounds of covid infections as the variants occur. India is a prime example of what can happen. 4. I want America to fully re-open again. Life will not get back to normal unless infection rates drop nationally. 5. Having the vaccine builds a persons immune system 5x stronger than people who have had covid and developed the antibodies. I would not have been vaccinated for any 2 or 3 of these reasons. But the cumulative benefits of all these reasons made my decisions easy. The risks associated with getting the vaccine are extremely low or even nil. That is what influenced my decision. I wish each of you the best of luck with your decision to vaccinate to to not vaccinate.