Why do I trust the anecdotal reports here more than any alphabet health agency….
The EUAs were granted, in part, because there wasn't the usual 2-10 year clinical trial period AND because of the hysteria. The short term trials were just that...trials that ran for a few week under the usual data collection protocols.
The Vaccine Efficacy(VE) metrics of 90% or so were qualified (but that wasn't highlighted in the press releases)... they were effectively "in-time and in-sample" VEs. There was "no time" to do an out-of-time VE calculation because....well...people wanted a shot.
Now we see that -surprise - VE decays over time for these shots, right down to zero for Omicron. We also see side effects - maybe due to the messenger RNA platform - and the impacts across multiple seasons.
HOWEVER...if this was a clinical trial, all this data would be collected in a controlled, well-governed, trusted, and heterogenous manner where the TRUTH would be clear. THIS (among other things) is the benefit of long-run clinical trials.
Instead (by design?), because these observations are not sysmatically collected or are being collected by Citizen Clinicians, it exposes the process to name-calling, character assasination, smearing and so on.
So, who you gonna call?
Why do I trust the anecdotal reports here more than any alphabet health agency….
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Historically, communication of illness has always been the way humans interface but today social media discussions of Covid is banned. So they isolate everyone and then ban their means of communicating. It’s diabolical and all very deliberate.