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Not going to happen. I am not going to risk my life and my family's life on emergency use experimental vaccines. Typical vaccines are multi year efforts 5 o 6 years atleast multiple rounds of trials over longer time horizon to identify the side effects.

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Honest question, does this mean you will be doing a self-imposed lockdown for 5 years until you see the long term effects of vaccination?

No I believe I along with my family have already been exposed to the virus with various interactions. We live in a crowded condo with central air and people piling on in the mail room. Everyone in the building including me ordering takeout. There is no reason for me to be in lockdown.

Someone just down voted me for saying CDC does not have the authority to tell me an American Citizen what I can and cannot do without a warrant.

No, you got downvoted for reading a set of guidelines and complaining like it was a set of orders.

This has been my basic approach for months.

The risk has to be balanced with the rewards. So I wear masks when asked to and wash my hands often. And take the 1/1000ish risk of contracting covid a few times a week. Trusting that my low risk of it having lasting complications means that it costs me something like 1/million chance of really bad outcomes to resume most of my normal life.

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