I'm not even assessing the risk of the vaccine in my judgement.
I'm saying the apparent risk of the disease to myself and from me to others is not above the necessary level to stir an action from me.
I'm probably going to get the vaccine if I see some sense of nuance to the guidance. Such as reasonable advice properly and publicly discussing the relative risk/rewards for our various demographics. The current attitude that I'm confronted with in my day-to-day is "wow what a dumb fuck hes hurting himself and everyone around him", for me the stats say otherwise.
I'm pulling a different angle into the equation: an altruistic angle. Are you a priori not interested in participating in an effort that would require an action from you (and possibly also a risk) unless you're directly beneficiary of such action?
I'd assert that in such an experiment I would already be doing my part to reduce the impact of covid mainly due to where I live and minorly by my choices of how I live. The extra utility of that vaccine is effectively lost on me when that is figured in. When there is 0 utility then any altruistic action is nothing more than signaling. If I could be convinced there is serious utility for others by getting vaccinated then of course I would get it. Nobody seems willing to put real numbers to this, its simply "DO IT EVERYONE!"
Lets say there are only 2 reasons to get the vaccine:
1) To protect yourself
2) To protect all those you care for.
I'm not worried about 1 due to the apparently very low likelihood I will have some terrible personal covid outcome.
I'm not worried about 2 due to the apparent very low likelihood of even catching covid.
I'm saying the apparent risk of the disease to myself and from me to others is not above the necessary level to stir an action from me.
I'm probably going to get the vaccine if I see some sense of nuance to the guidance. Such as reasonable advice properly and publicly discussing the relative risk/rewards for our various demographics. The current attitude that I'm confronted with in my day-to-day is "wow what a dumb fuck hes hurting himself and everyone around him", for me the stats say otherwise.