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The intentions were good, I don't doubt that, but I just feel so disappointed now. I didn't have any strong opinions about Covid vaccines before, and just did w

The intentions were good, I don't doubt that, but I just feel so disappointed now. I didn't have any strong opinions about Covid vaccines before, and just did what everyone else did. However, I developed heart rhythm issues few days after vaccination, and some blood coagulation problems (blood is thicker that normal, doesn't matter how much water I regularly drink per day). I am 26 years old, I don't drink nor smoke, I watch what I eat, control my weight, exercise regularly and did these things long before Covid. To the best of my knowledge, I never had Covid either, nor any notable health issues before that. If this is a coincidence, it's some absurd lottery winning luck.

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I gave you a compensatory upvote assuming that you're sincere since it looks like a real account. The extreme politicization of this is ridiculous, really, because it was 100% bipartisan. Operation warp speed was a Trump administration initiative. Vaccine mandates were pushed pretty hard across the board with only a few notable exceptions. The far right started pushing antivaxx stuff even before there was any evidence anything was wrong, which of course forced the left to take the extreme opposite position because that's how it always has to be. If one side says the sky is blue, the other side is forced to say it's green. The bases (both of them) demand nothing less than total polarization on every issue so they can get their outrage dopamine fix. Now that there is some evidence of problems (which doesn't surprise me that much because developing and shipping a vaccine in one year is kind of nuts), nobody can go back and change their position because the flags have been planted firmly in the ground. That's how modern hyper-polarized social media hate-laser politics works. The reality is that the entire pandemic is a "fog of war" scenario. There was immense economic pressure to reopen the economy to get the current administration re-elected (which would have happened regardless of what party was in office because that's politics), and that took the form of both a crash vaccine program and pushes to just reopen and "absorb" COVID. Loads of data were collected but nobody understands the data yet because there are multiple variables changing in multiple ways. Any engineer knows that when multiple things are changing at the same time it becomes almost impossible to know what is going on. Unfortunately history offers few opportunities for controlled experiments. I don't expect to see a complete picture of COVID, its effects, what measures worked the best, and how effective and/or problematic the vaccine is for years.

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api 3y ago

I gave you a compensatory upvote assuming that you're sincere since it looks like a real account. The extreme politicization of this is ridiculous, really, because it was 100% bipartisan. Operation warp speed was a Trump administration initiative. Vaccine mandates were pushed pretty hard across the board with only a few notable exceptions. The far right started pushing antivaxx stuff even before there was any evidence anything was wrong, which of course forced the left to take the extreme opposite position because that's how it always has to be. If one side says the sky is blue, the other side is forced to say it's green. The bases (both of them) demand nothing less than total polarization on every issue so they can get their outrage dopamine fix. Now that there is some evidence of problems (which doesn't surprise me that much because developing and shipping a vaccine in one year is kind of nuts), nobody can go back and change their position because the flags have been planted firmly in the ground. That's how modern hyper-polarized social media hate-laser politics works. The reality is that the entire pandemic is a "fog of war" scenario. There was immense economic pressure to reopen the economy to get the current administration re-elected (which would have happened regardless of what party was in office because that's politics), and that took the form of both a crash vaccine program and pushes to just reopen and "absorb" COVID. Loads of data were collected but nobody understands the data yet because there are multiple variables changing in multiple ways. Any engineer knows that when multiple things are changing at the same time it becomes almost impossible to know what is going on. Unfortunately history offers few opportunities for controlled experiments. I don't expect to see a complete picture of COVID, its effects, what measures worked the best, and how effective and/or problematic the vaccine is for years.