It’s all fair game at this point! I’m mid 20s and got the vaccine and booster, I ended up getting Covid a week ago (I’m blaming mexico)
I basically had every symptom for a few hours over the course of 3 days. Congestion stayed a full week, but I have allergies anyways.
my biggest reason for the vaccine? I don’t want to lose my taste or smell, that sounds like torture. I did wait a year and let millions of other people be Guinea pigs. But I also grew up and spend a lot of time with doctors and nurses in the medical field, so my approach was obviously biased to begin with just from what I’ve been around. I had no issues from any of the shots (yet, I could always develop something later and I understand that risk)
they’ve been working on mRNA and Coronavirus vaccines for years before this all started, so it certainly was not as “fast tracked” as people make it seem. The paperwork and government process was, and all that tells me is how inefficient our government is to begin with.
I had an unvaccinated room mate get Covid, we shared vapes, worked together, rose in the car together, even drank after each other the night his symptoms started and I tested negative and felt fine, but that was closer to when I had the vaccine.
I think regardless everyone gets to decide themselves which route to go and 99.99% of people are going to be fine either way.