I think getting the vaccine is mostly safe. There's a risk with any drug/vaccine/surgery, but I'm in a relatively high risk group. If offered, I would take it.
Part of that is my military training. The chance of bad things happening if you get sick outweigh the potential (unlikely) bad things that could happen from the vaccine.
However, I don't agree the vaccine should be mandated. Fuck anyone's personal opinion on infringing on others' freedom to live and not be at risk. There's nothing that says you have a right to be safe from other people's infections. There's no way to 100% prevent it, so pretending we can and demanding masks and vaccines is childish as well as fascist.
My body, my choice. If I need to wear a mask to avoid infecting people, so be it. But making me take a shot that's untested to any effective degree is the worst thing to do.
Imagine if 20% of the vaccinated children develop autism, or 30% of the men become sterile. How about 50% experience a drop in immune response to other diseases they didn't experience before? Until the numbers come in over several decades, you're mandating everyone take that risk. That's not science. That's emotional fear and dictatorial compliance.
Reminds me of the movie Die Hard.
Big Johnson: "Figure we take out the terrorists. Lose twenty, twenty-five percent of the hostages, tops."
Little Johnson: "I can live with that."