Informed consent is important. I don’t recall being informed about accumulation in bone marrow or ovaries, or the risk of myocarditis or the risk of brain fog at the time I got my shots. Maybe some of these side-effects weren’t known at the time. But that the vaccine didn’t stay in the muscle and therefore might have systemic effects was news to me, and they’re asserting that this was known at the time.
I’ve been experiencing persistent palpitations recently. It had not occurred to me that this could be due to the vaccine until I watched this video. I believed the mainstream line that the vaccines are safe and effective. I still think they’re effective. The evidence for that is very strong. I’m less confident that they’re safe now.
Confirmation bias is a serious concern when reactions are this delayed though. People develop health issues all the time for all sorts of reasons. If they’re primed to think the vaccine could have long-term side effects, they’d probably attribute all sorts of things to the vaccine that are mere coincidence. So individual anecdotes are pretty weak evidence, but this noisy data is still worth collecting to see if any patterns emerge. On the other hand, if we’ve all been primed to think the vaccines are safe (and we have been), then we won’t make the connection at all and don’t even report the data, and this is one of the main concerns from the video. The issue has become too politicized for society to be objective about it. Legitimate concerns get you labeled as an antivaxxer.
Yes, as I said in my letter to my dad: elderly people already die often (big number nationally), so if vaccines are being given to millions of elderly people, we should expect a tiny percentage to die soon afterward from natural causes. A key thing to look at is whether it used to be rare (and in 2021 became common) to give the vaccines to ill elderly people, which could explain the increase in VAERS.
Still, why are blood clots given lots of attention but not VAERS reports? And if the FDA is so understaffed, why?
Blood clots are not independent from VEARS reports. VEARS reports are how the FDA gets the data about the Blood clots.
The VEARS reports give them reports about many different kinds of issues and if there are many issues to look into and they are understaffed it’s reasonable to put more attention on the blood clots issue then other issues given that blood clots in the brain are a serious issue.
One obvious candidate explanation: For the reason you explain in the letter to your dad – probably those deaths were roughly what you’d expect among the vaccinated demographic if the vaccine is benign. By contrast, the specific blood clots are generally rare.
Informed consent is important. I don’t recall being informed about accumulation in bone marrow or ovaries, or the risk of myocarditis or the risk of brain fog at the time I got my shots. Maybe some of these side-effects weren’t known at the time. But that the vaccine didn’t stay in the muscle and therefore might have systemic effects was news to me, and they’re asserting that this was known at the time.
I’ve been experiencing persistent palpitations recently. It had not occurred to me that this could be due to the vaccine until I watched this video. I believed the mainstream line that the vaccines are safe and effective. I still think they’re effective. The evidence for that is very strong. I’m less confident that they’re safe now.
Confirmation bias is a serious concern when reactions are this delayed though. People develop health issues all the time for all sorts of reasons. If they’re primed to think the vaccine could have long-term side effects, they’d probably attribute all sorts of things to the vaccine that are mere coincidence. So individual anecdotes are pretty weak evidence, but this noisy data is still worth collecting to see if any patterns emerge. On the other hand, if we’ve all been primed to think the vaccines are safe (and we have been), then we won’t make the connection at all and don’t even report the data, and this is one of the main concerns from the video. The issue has become too politicized for society to be objective about it. Legitimate concerns get you labeled as an antivaxxer.
Yes, as I said in my letter to my dad: elderly people already die often (big number nationally), so if vaccines are being given to millions of elderly people, we should expect a tiny percentage to die soon afterward from natural causes. A key thing to look at is whether it used to be rare (and in 2021 became common) to give the vaccines to ill elderly people, which could explain the increase in VAERS.
Still, why are blood clots given lots of attention but not VAERS reports? And if the FDA is so understaffed, why?
Blood clots are not independent from VEARS reports. VEARS reports are how the FDA gets the data about the Blood clots.
The VEARS reports give them reports about many different kinds of issues and if there are many issues to look into and they are understaffed it’s reasonable to put more attention on the blood clots issue then other issues given that blood clots in the brain are a serious issue.
How is it more reasonable to focus on VAERS blood clots than VAERS deaths?
One obvious candidate explanation: For the reason you explain in the letter to your dad – probably those deaths were roughly what you’d expect among the vaccinated demographic if the vaccine is benign. By contrast, the specific blood clots are generally rare.
Because you rather focus on investigating the thing that causes the most deaths then investigating deaths in general.