When I first got vaccinated I signed up for a symptom reporting system that bugged me periodically to ask how I’m feeling. It seemed to me like the obvious way to monitor the population for vaccine effectiveness, vaccine side effects and symptomatic infection of the vaccinated population. When my second dose of the vaccine produced mild side effects I reported then via the automated survey.
A random walk-by testing survey station tested me (and anyone else who agreed) in a park. It seemed to me like a reasonable way to measure the relative ratio of asymptomatic variants.
Several of the people I talked to or indirectly listened in on said they’d been given a number to call if they got any side effects. Then when they got side effects and called, they were given the “The vaccine is safe so this must be something else” line.
Clearly that’s not everyone’s experience. But since I don’t know the structure these people encountered in almost any detail, my net emotional update was “Fuck this ‘data’.”
When I first got vaccinated I signed up for a symptom reporting system that bugged me periodically to ask how I’m feeling. It seemed to me like the obvious way to monitor the population for vaccine effectiveness, vaccine side effects and symptomatic infection of the vaccinated population. When my second dose of the vaccine produced mild side effects I reported then via the automated survey.
A random walk-by testing survey station tested me (and anyone else who agreed) in a park. It seemed to me like a reasonable way to measure the relative ratio of asymptomatic variants.
Yep, that does seem reasonable.
Several of the people I talked to or indirectly listened in on said they’d been given a number to call if they got any side effects. Then when they got side effects and called, they were given the “The vaccine is safe so this must be something else” line.
Clearly that’s not everyone’s experience. But since I don’t know the structure these people encountered in almost any detail, my net emotional update was “Fuck this ‘data’.”