This is ridiculous, A) vaccine is here to prevent you from getting severe forms of Covid, prevent massive contagion, but not avoiding it. B) Vaccines put on the market are already approved to be safe.
There are not severe forms of COVID, unless you want to classify the delta variant as such. There are severe symptoms. Severe symptoms in Chandler's age category and health status are virtually zero, statistically. The vaccines are approved to be safe, but also approved for use without the ability to sue for damages. So, there is nothing wrong with trepidation about it. Statistically is it safer to get the vaccine? On a whole, yes, and I wouldn't advise someone not to get it, but as an individual he has relatively the same risk as suffering a benign side effect such as bells palsy (which would impact training) as he does getting severe symptoms, which again, is basically 0.
Being healthy does not necessarily help you.
There are more than enough young and healthy people who got fucked up by covid-19 and that could happen to Chandler too.
Also, obviously no vaccine prevents an infection 100% guaranteed, but if you're vaccinated and get infected, the chances you're having harsh symptoms are tiny.
The fact that if you're infected while vaccinated means that you have a way lower amount of germs inside your body also means that you're more unlikely to infect others with a severe case, since the severity of covid-19 symptoms depends on the amount of germs you're getting exposed to upon Infection.
So all things considered, i respectfully disagree.
Being healthy does 100% help you, that is a complete falsehood. I've worked the ER/ICU for the last 18 months during this pandemic and honestly (subjective experience here) have not seen or taken care of a healthy young male or female with severe COVID symptoms, they're all discharge home and quarantine. Now, obese/smoker/etc., yes. This is a small sample size, I'm not sure on how many I've seen but it's certainly at least in the several hundred range at minimum, maybe over 1,000. I don't know, it's been a long couple years.
Also, I think you need to refamiliarize yourself with the delta variant and vaccinations. The current data suggest that the viral loads are not impacted by vaccination, or maybe minimally. The vaccine is also not nearly as effective at prevention with this variant.
Do I think there's harm in getting the vaccine? Nah. Do I think it's safer than being vaccinated? Yes. But in this particular case, I think the likelihood of a negative outcome one way or the other are essentially equal. He's put forth a reasonable perspective on why he's waiting to receive the vaccine and he is his own medical proponent, as he should be.