My wife is in the high-risk category for a bad outcome from COVID. She is also in the high-risk category for blood clots from AZ. However, it was the first vaccine available to her. She wasn't going to take it for fear of blood clots but then dug into the data and found that the risk of blood clots from COVID was significantly higher (orders of magnitude higher). So she took the AZ and had no issue apart from feeling a bit unwell for a couple of days. That was months ago and she had Pfizer as her second dose and, again, only felt a bit unwell for a day or two. Her booster will be Pfizer, at weeks end.For me, the only vaccine that I would consider taking is the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine which is the only one approved by the FDA.
JLB
I've had three Pfizer shots with no ill effects other than a sore shoulder for a few days. It's not like I am fully convinced of mRNA tech in the vaccines, but I did it to protect others and it is--statistically speaking--better than taking chances with COVID. I work the frontline with COVID; I've seen what does to people. I started before vaccines were available, with proper PPE, as did most of my co-workers (and most have worked there many months longer than I). Not a single colleague has gotten COVID at work. Most are also double or triple vaxxed now and none have had an adverse reaction.
The sad part is, my stepdad (a retired pharmacist) and his wife (a retired nurse with her master's in nursing) believed much of the misinformation regrading the vaccines, some of which is promoted in this tread, so they didn't get vaxxed. They also didn't want to stay in Canada because of the restrictions. So they went to Texas for six months. My stepdad is currently fighting for his life in a Texas hospital due to COVID. She is still recovering and only made it because she was able to get the monoclonal antibody infusion; my stepdad was too sick for it by the time he went in. And it was almost certainly preventable, but because they were intent on believing misinformation and not willing to listen to other, more plausible explanations, this has happened.
Ideas have consequences and that is why it is some of the positions in this thread--mostly an unwillingness to consider other, more plausible explanations--are so dangerous.