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I've taken other vaccines before. I tend to read the inserts and consider probabilities of what the illness it is supposed to protect me against occurring and what that means if it happens, and the probabilities of some of the negative interactions on the inserts and what that means to me.

I will tell you since the 1990s when the manufacturers were given all liability protection from their products I have considered them less safe. They have intentionally reverted to less safe versions of their vaccines before because they were less expensive to make.

Due to that liability protection I likely won't ever take one again unless there is a very compelling reason such as I am about to travel to a country with an active Ebola outbreak and an ebola vaccine is available.

Now if that liability protection were removed such that I, or my family could sue them if I am harmed by their product then I might not offer as much hesitation.

A lot of the vaccines though the potential side effects are WAY WORSE than the illness itself. I doubt I'll ever take any that such is the case.