The good folks at Lawyers Guns and Money have started cataloguing what they call "Vaccine Eeyorism." Basically a form of gloomy pessimism about how effective the vaccine is. As Vox has outlined, the vaccines work GREAT. The problem is the nature of scientific discourse, which places a primacy on 100% accuracy, proven by experimentation and observable data. Scientists didn't know if getting the vaccine makes you incapable of shedding the virus if you had an asymptomatic infection. They still don't "know," but it sure as hell looks like it does. That scientific uncertainty doesn't mix well with clickbait headlines and superficial soundbites.
TL/DR: Get your shot.
UPDATE: Chait takes on the same topic.
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