There's been about two BILLION doses of various COVID vaccine given around the world over the last 13+ months (trials started April 2020).
There's been very little in the way of statistically significant, substantially adverse side effects, especially compared to vaccines for other diseases...
A colleague of mine who had COVID in March 2020, who was still dealing with lingering respiratory symptoms in mid-June 2020. I had another colleague who was hospitalized with it after passing out at urgent care with saturated O2 of 83(!!!) whose personal physician recommended he not be more...
I’m 37 which statistically is VERY low risk, and got vax’d the first day I could.
Not because I was scared of COVID (I wasn’t), and not because I’m a sheep...but because being sick *sucks* and a safe/effective vaccine was available to prevent me from getting sick.
Again - that was MY choice...
Practically anybody can submit adverse effects to VAERS.
Simple math says the probability of a severe adverse impact from vaccination is orders of magnitude less than the probability of a severe adverse impact from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
If people don’t want to get vaccinated, that should be...
Not everybody in China is "rushing" to be vaccinated...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-26/hong-kong-debates-what-to-do-with-pile-of-unused-covid-vaccines
Its worth noting that anybody who tests positive for COVID in Hong Kong gets sent to a makeshift convalescence ward in the...
Scientists already knew how coronaviruses "work".
The genome was mapped in January 2020, which means scientists knew exactly what they needed to target on the coronavirus spike protein in order to prevent it from replicating.
A dab of this, a bit of that, and WHAMMO there's your vaccine. The...
Yeah...one can't really make a (debunked) claim and when people ask you to provide a citation for that claim, go all "Its not my responsibility to do your work."
101M fully vaccinated people by 30 April, and just 10,262 breakthrough infections...0.01% rate.
27% of “breakthroughs” were asymptomatic, meaning diagnosed due to surveillance testing. 29% of hospitalized breakthroughs were asymptomatic or not hospitalized because of COVID.
Median age of...
If you look at the contact info on that "paper", you'll note an email hosted at www.vaccines.net
Let's just say there's not a lot of objective scientific credibility on that website.
In absolutely no way did I "impugn those who have a different opinion" - I simply said those people should make their decisions based on reality and values, not misinformation or fear. While a good number of people here have shared misinformation and fear to justify their decisions, what I wrote...
There’s a BIG difference between thinking “everyone” *should* get COVID vaccinated, and “everyone” *must* get COVID vaccinated.
People can and should make their own decisions, but IMO that decision should be informed by real-world data and individual values - not speculation, misinformation...
I'm totally fine with people drawing and firing - just stand abeam the benches. Its a skill that is necessary to practice.
Dumb college kids looking down the barrel of their Mosin that hangfired, and having it discharge with the barrel about 15 degrees before their forehead, then exclaiming...
Yes, it still works well....my 7 year old loves it for his "experiments"!
Like so many things these days, newer models have more features - I'd prefer the display show state of charge as a percentage instead of bars but overall I'm quite pleased at the capability for the cost.