Well, aren’t you lucky that nobody you know who has had Covid has had a serious case. More than half a million other families can’t say the same thing.
That’s true, but there are millions more who can say it hasn’t had that affect on them. We had one family member (SIL) who got it. Only symptom was mild fatigue. Her kids and husband didn’t get it. A girl in my son’s ballet class had it. She was sick for one day. No one else in the class contracted it. I literally do not even personally know one other person who’s had it, nevermind had a severe case. I’m sure that plays into my vaccine hesitancy, and that of others. Tough to take a risk on a vaccine not having long term consequences when the virus has an extremely high survival rate for most people.
Oh my......so not true.
What is your source?
Are you not aware of post-market surveillence? I believe you indicated previously you are in clinical research.
Pharm companies are under constant vigil of any issues with their drugs, report issues if serious and are obligated to do a full report annually. Hmm.....
Where do you work that you are so sure that pharmaceutical companies are always perfect and quick to admit any mistakes? There are many class-action law-suits which say otherwise...
Let’s face it, these vaccines WERE rushed. No two ways about it. And yay, they seem to work and seem to (hopefully) help more people than they are injuring. But let’s not pretend that issues might not crop up. I’ve read multiple quotes from doctors associated with the AZ clotting cases who say they have no doubt that the vaccine caused the issue. Now it looks like the J&J vaccine might have a similar issue.
But instead of people saying, “whoa, maybe we should slow down because any death is one too many” - a la when everyone said we needed to shut down the world because one death was one too many even though other people were dying and suffering BECAUSE of the shutdowns - it’s still “full speed ahead, because we’re helping more people than we’re hurting”. Well every one of those people who die have families, just like those who die of covid have families. And maybe it’s a risk vs return situation and we just need to accept that, but it’s pretty callous to just dismiss concerns out of hand. Of course I also thought it was callous to dismiss the concerns of those who were losing their jobs, homes, and very lives (suicide) due to covid restrictions.
EVERY life matters, and shutting down RATIONAL fears/uncertainty as being “irrational” or “ignorant” is itself ignorant. After all, when the first few people died after the AZ vaccine, most were shushing anyone who voiced concerns that it might be a real problem. Now lo and behold it’s a real problem and the vaccine is no longer being used in certain cohorts.
I’m sure the people who designed the AZ and J&J vaccines never thought they’d cause clotting issues. No one would produce a vaccine that they thought would hurt people - that’s the point, it’s UNKNOWN.
Now I’m signed up to get the Pfizer vaccine tomorrow, but I sure as heck won’t get any vaccine for my 12 yr old boys.
