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> no thanks. Good faith: why? What is your reasoning?

by boppo1 3y ago

yungporko 3y ago
i'm not the person you asked, but i developed a rare blood disorder called TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura) that very nearly killed me after the vaccine. the hemotology consultant was very interested in my covid vaccination history when they figured out what was killing me. later found out that what i had was the clotting thing that was going around in the news that was supposed to be nothing to worry about. you know what didn't almost kill me? the 3 times i caught covid.
- n8henrie 3y ago
  Which brand of the vaccine?
  - yungporko 3y ago
    i had the pfizer one
    - n8henrie 3y ago
      Thanks for sharing. I would have guessed Johnson.
      - yungporko 3y ago
        i'm not sure if we had that one here in the uk, but i heard the astrazeneca one was the worst one for it, no idea if that's true though
camillomiller 3y ago
Simple: I don't like the idea of "believing" in science as if it was a faith. This approach has been reflected too often in policy decisions, during and after the pandemic, that are not objective but highly political. Politically I am absolutely on the side of vaccines, but in my opinion this indiscriminate call to vaccinate against an endemic virus reinforces the anti-vaxxer fringes, because it's fundamentally unjustified by data in individuals outside of specific risk groups. The science behind the Covid vaccines is all but settled, albeit solid. What's definitely settled is that the companies producing the vaccine have vast interests and lobbying power to steer these policy decisions without any actual risk justifying this large-scale post-pandemic deployment. I wanna be free to get back to calling out the greed of big pharma without being immediately grouped with the anti-vaxxer idiots. That said, I have previous experience with seasonal flu and it's always been highly debilitating for me, unlike Covid. That is why I will certainly get a seasonal flu vaccine, whose action and science is way more settled and tested than the Covid ones.

> no thanks. Good faith: why? What is your reasoning?

by boppo1 3y ago

> no thanks. Good faith: why? What is your reasoning?

i'm not the person you asked, but i developed a rare blood disorder called TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura) that very nearly killed me after the vaccine. the hemotology consultant was very interested in my covid vaccination history when they figured out what was killing me. later found out that what i had was the clotting thing that was going around in the news that was supposed to be nothing to worry about. you know what didn't almost kill me? the 3 times i caught covid.

n8henrie 3y ago
Which brand of the vaccine?
- yungporko 3y ago
  i had the pfizer one
  - n8henrie 3y ago
    Thanks for sharing. I would have guessed Johnson.
    - yungporko 3y ago
      i'm not sure if we had that one here in the uk, but i heard the astrazeneca one was the worst one for it, no idea if that's true though

camillomiller 3y ago

Simple: I don't like the idea of "believing" in science as if it was a faith. This approach has been reflected too often in policy decisions, during and after the pandemic, that are not objective but highly political. Politically I am absolutely on the side of vaccines, but in my opinion this indiscriminate call to vaccinate against an endemic virus reinforces the anti-vaxxer fringes, because it's fundamentally unjustified by data in individuals outside of specific risk groups. The science behind the Covid vaccines is all but settled, albeit solid. What's definitely settled is that the companies producing the vaccine have vast interests and lobbying power to steer these policy decisions without any actual risk justifying this large-scale post-pandemic deployment. I wanna be free to get back to calling out the greed of big pharma without being immediately grouped with the anti-vaxxer idiots. That said, I have previous experience with seasonal flu and it's always been highly debilitating for me, unlike Covid. That is why I will certainly get a seasonal flu vaccine, whose action and science is way more settled and tested than the Covid ones.