Meta-cog minds did not take the covid vaxx.
To decide whether the covid vax should be taken, you need to weigh the costs and the benefits. Assuming a reasonably normal human[^1], who wants to avoid getting themselves or other people sick, some questions you’ll need to answer include:
- does covid exist at all, or is it a huge psy-op?
- does the vax perform as advertised, or is it secretly poisoned?
- (how much) does the vax prevent transmission?
- (how long) will the current vax continue to be effective after taking it?
- by getting vaxxed, am I preventing someone else who needs to worse than I do from getting it?
- if I catch covid, what happens?
- if I experience side effects from the vax, what happens?
The important parts is that none of these are metacognitive questions! “Thinking for yourself” hits diminishing returns very quickly; that’s why modern medicine takes the “double blind test or it don’t work” standard to any non-trivial[^2] interventions. The answers to these questions live out there in the universe.
Are you running your own study? I doubt it, because if you were, you would’ve said so. That means you can’t pretend not to trust experts—you’ve decided to trust someone, for some reason, other than yourself.
Which expert have you decided to trust? Why them?
[^1]: is-ought problem says you can’t logically prove that someone should avoid making themselves and others sick, but, in the real world, most people want the same things
[^2]: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094