Well, this is kind of interesting. My dad e-mailed me today and he asked me about the vaccination situation here and when I thought I'd get one. I told him I qualify next week and that I have been giving a lot of thought about what to do because the only option being used widely here is Sinovac and I do not feel comfortable receiving it. I said, I've been careful all this time and haven't gotten sick. I guess maybe I could have had an asymptomatic case, but that seems unlikely. We are severely locked down and I work from home. Apart from my husband, my contacts with others is only brief interactions like receiving a package or buying something at the pharmacy. So, I said since it looks like we will be getting more variety of vaccines in the relatively near future, I have decided to continue with self-care measures and wait a bit more to see what options become available.

I was sort of anticipating pushback. My dad is a retired chemist and I know he's been keeping up to date on the vaccine developments. I thought he'd start with the spiel of I should get whatever vaccine is available. Instead his response was to keep doing what I'm doing. It doesn't sound like he has much faith in Sinovac either.