Right now a model I’m considering is that the C19 vac, at least for a particular class of people (males under 30? 40?) has zero or negative EV, and mostly shifts risk from the legible (death from c19) to the illegible (brain fog? general systematic problems the medical system does not know how to interpret!) Where “legible” is legible in the seeing-like-a-state sense.
I’m mostly motivated, again, by the same thing as you. It seems like there’s an incredible disproportion between the bad side effects among my friend group, and the bad side effects I should be hearing about if serious side-effects are really as rare as they’re supposed to be.
To add to your data collection problem: There’s so much more effort being put into collecting info about long-term side effects of the virus than the vaccine. We’ve studies look at how much C19 influences intelligence, which is a hard question. But how many have we had on the vaccine and intelligence? And so on for X, Y, Z.
This is very anecdotal, but I know a number of young people who had COVID and a number of young people who got the vaccine. Of the ones who had COVID, about half report continuing brain fog and thinking issues—one person went from a 99th percentile score on the PSAT to a 80th percentile score on the SAT. Of the ones who got the vaccine (including one who got the vaccine and booster shot after previously having COVID) there have been no noticed issues with thinking/intelligence.
Right now a model I’m considering is that the C19 vac, at least for a particular class of people (males under 30? 40?) has zero or negative EV, and mostly shifts risk from the legible (death from c19) to the illegible (brain fog? general systematic problems the medical system does not know how to interpret!) Where “legible” is legible in the seeing-like-a-state sense.
I’m mostly motivated, again, by the same thing as you. It seems like there’s an incredible disproportion between the bad side effects among my friend group, and the bad side effects I should be hearing about if serious side-effects are really as rare as they’re supposed to be.
To add to your data collection problem: There’s so much more effort being put into collecting info about long-term side effects of the virus than the vaccine. We’ve studies look at how much C19 influences intelligence, which is a hard question. But how many have we had on the vaccine and intelligence? And so on for X, Y, Z.
This is very anecdotal, but I know a number of young people who had COVID and a number of young people who got the vaccine. Of the ones who had COVID, about half report continuing brain fog and thinking issues—one person went from a 99th percentile score on the PSAT to a 80th percentile score on the SAT. Of the ones who got the vaccine (including one who got the vaccine and booster shot after previously having COVID) there have been no noticed issues with thinking/intelligence.