The risk of acquiring or transmitting covid (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2,) is reduced in vaccinated humans. It isn't clear to me that that is sufficient reason to get vaccinated.
Try as I might, I haven't been able to find the details on all the vaccines' production methods. I don't get a flu shot because I don't want to be part of the reason that chickens are hurt and killed.
If I was stranded on a desert island with a dog, a chicken, or a human I could overcome, I wouldn't kill and eat them even if I would starve to death otherwise. The risk of getting and dying from Covid is lower than the risk of starving to death when stranded on a desert island.
I suspect that the mRNA vaccines use fewer animals in their producton, but, as I mentioned above, mRNA production details are hard to find.
At 68, I'm in a high-risk group. At my day job, I interact with the public. We are all masked, and when we are the closest and I'm speaking with them, there is generally a barrier between us. When I shop for groceries, I wear a mask and avoid being very close to other shoppers. I use self-checkout even though I'd prefer to help create a job by being checked out by a clerk. At the dog parks, no one is masked, but we are outdoors, and I keep my distance.
I wish I knew about the mRNA vaccine production methods.
For the record, the primate vivisection industry's claims about the need for monkeys in the development of the Covid vaccines rings hollow to me. Vivisectors have claimed that just about everything is the direct result of their experiments on animals. I've debunked many of these, and in the process of reading the history of medicine and the historical details behind many of the drugs and treatments ballyhooed by the vivisectors, I've learned that their claims can never be taken at face value. If their claims about the use of monkeys was the only mention of animals being used I might go ahead and get vaccinated because their claims are almost always bogus.
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Thank you for this! I keep getting flak from friends and family for not getting the vaccine. Here is some information about the inherent harms in the vaccine's manufacture and these to not include any of the known animal testing issues, which are still ongoing.
Squalene oil is still coming from sharks:
https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/hunt-alternatives-shark-squalene-vaccines/98/i47
Milk proteins and live cows are used in this vaccine's development:
https://www.dairyherd.com/news/cows-being-used-produce-covid-vaccine
Horseshoe crabs are drained of their blood and left to fend for their lives:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/covid-vaccine-needs-horseshoe-crab-blood
And to my knowledge (and I haven't heard anything to contradict this) but all vaccines require a cell medium to grow and replicate. This is typically either egg or even blood serum (usually cow's). Of course all of these issues are also conservation issues as well as animal rights issues as you can see from those articles.
Fetal calf serum is, I think, a standard component of the media used to grow animal cells. Presumably, the manufacturing labs need animal cells to propagate the virus.
What remains unclear to me is the method/s used to produce the mRNA vaccines. Creating mRNA might be more about chemistry than growing the virus.
A bit of potential good news is that there might be a non-animal tissue based vaccine on the horizon: https://www.todocanada.ca/canadian-made-vegan-covid-19-vaccine-by-medicago-shows-promising-phase-ii-clinical-trial-results/
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