The chicken pox vaccine does not keep you from getting chicken pox but makes it much less severe. This was one of the arguments over whether or not to bother with it for my first son. I had chicken pox when I was a kid -- I thought no big deal. But then the pediatrician presented the statistics of how many complications occur with chicken pox and how that risk is greatly lowered with the vaccine, so we had both our kids vaccinated for it.
My only concern with this one is that to paraphrase SNL "Which of the secondary effects -- heart damage, neurological problems, potential clots, kidney damage, etc. can you still get with the vaccine?" : We don't know dis.
But -- hopefully, this vaccine will buy society time to figure out how to deal with the many, many complications of this virus that we do not understand. The real goal as I see it is to stretch this out as long as possible so that hospital's do not become overwhelmed and researchers have time to figure out treatments for the secondary effects of Covid.
I will be toward the end of the line to get the vaccine, but assuming there are not major side effects that popup when they mass distribute I fully anticipate getting this. The shingles vaccine knocked me on my butt for 2 days, but that was a small price to pay to avoid shingles. I would take the same side effect from the Covid vaccine without much gripe.
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