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> I'm the only person I know that had an adverse reaction to my 2nd dose (Moderna) I don't _personally_ know anyone who died from COVID. Yet people are clearly
by m0zg 5y ago
> I'm the only person I know that had an adverse reaction to my 2nd dose (Moderna)
I don't _personally_ know anyone who died from COVID. Yet people are clearly dying from it. They are also sometimes getting adverse reactions to vaccines, up to and including death. Personal anecdotes are not data, however, and it's annoying and alarming that COVID deaths are inflated (got run over by a bus, but had COVID that only shows up at 40 PCR cycles? you died "with covid"), whereas vaccine adverse effects are carefully swept under the rug. It is also extremely counterproductive if the goal is to persuade people to get vaccinated, and it demolishes what little trust in the authorities people still had.
I wish responsible adults, and not political operatives (or former / future Big Pharma corporate board members), ran our health authorities such as the FDA and the CDC.
PS: I'm vaccinated, obviously, since I'm not an idiot.
- chitowneats 5y agoCongratulations on pissing off every possible group with different parts of this comment. I upvoted you anyway.
- m0zg 5y agoIn the age of lies telling the truth is a revolutionary act. We're most certainly being had, and a crisis is being put to a good use by the interested parties: politicians, businesses, banks/hedge funds, and plain ol' facebook/twitter mouth breathers who vie for popularity and likes. Adults have left the room decades ago, as far as I can tell, if there were any adults in the public sector in the first place.
- curation 5y agoAgreed: moral acts are received as evil. We are attempting to 'save our democracy' and 'protect everyone' and that always only ends in one place: totalitarianism. The paradox of sustaining safety/risk is where we need to sit. But the coordination (blind and ideological; I don't think any of it is evil) of media wanting clicks, politicians being paid means we all serve The Economy. Thank you for your comments!
- _djo_ 5y ago> COVID deaths are inflated (got run over by a bus, but had COVID that only shows up at 40 PCR cycles? you died "with covid") This is false and an annoyingly persistent myth. A death is only included in COVID statistics if it was one of the four contributing causes of death. If someone died from trauma such as a vehicle accident, but is found to have had COVID, that's not recognised as a contributing factor but merely incidental. The WHO guidelines are very clear on this. [0] [0] https://www.who.int/classifications/icd/Guidelines_Cause_of_Death_COVID-19.pdf https://www.who.int/classifications/icd/Guidelines_Cause_of_...