//No I did not say all adults in Portugal must get vaccinated or fined. I said that tourists who do not comply with mask use are fine and not showing proof of vaccination to eat in a restaurant are not allowed in//
I find Portugal's approach very odd. I understand that they have vaccinated almost their entire population (figures show 203 doses administered per 100 head). So as many of their own people who want it must have by now had it. Yet, considering they depend heavily on tourism, they persist with two of the most absurd restrictions yet devised. They insist on people wearing flimsy, ill fitting masks which are never worn properly and provide next to no protection to either the user or those around them. And they insist on proof of vaccination to enter premises when vaccination neither stops the vaccinated contracting the virus nor prevents it being passed on. These measures seem even more odd when you consider that in the last week Portugal has recorded more than three times as many new cases per head than the UK, where restrictions are nowhere near as severe (at least not in England). Still, I suppose that if you do something over and over again you might eventually end up with a different outcome.
As far as the vaccine goes, I know of nobody who has died from Covid. I know two people who died and had it entered on their death certificates but neither died from it. I know nobody who has died from the effects of the vaccine. I know one or two people (me included) who suffered mild after effects for a day at most.
However, my brother-in-law and his son (my nephew) are both anti-vaxxers. They are not simply people who have decided not to have the vaccine. They have done all they can to persuade anybody who will listen that they should not have it. They explained to me that Covid was no worse than a cold and we should not be “allowing the government to invade our bodies with untested drugs” to lessen the risk of suffering from a cold.
Moving swiftly on, they both contracted Covid a week or so ago, the most likely source being my nephew’s daughter who tested positive. My nephew (aged 40 next birthday) is now seriously ill in hospital where he has been on oxygen for about five days. There was talk of placing him on a ventilator before the weekend though it seems his condition has slightly improved. His father, strangely, is not quite so ill though has been confined to bed at home for the best part of a week. His wife (Mrs NJ's sister) is fully vaccinated and is thankfully fully well. She has been worried sick about her son whilst having to care for her husband.
So, based purely on that very limited anecdotal evidence, I'd go with the vaccine any day.