Years ago I used to not bother getting a flu shot. I came down with a cold only around once every 2-3 years. So I didnt see the need for it.
Still, every year my doctors used to try to talk me into getting a flu shot. So one year I caved in and agreed to let my doctor give me my vwry first flu shot. The following year I came down with a cold about 2-3 times.
The next year I gave in again to my doctors prodding about getting another flu shot. Only for me to come down with the flu a handful of times within the year.
My 3rd time I got a flu shot, that year I still came down with a cold once every 1-1 1/2 months! I couldn’t believe it. I went from getting a cold only once every 2-3 years to once almost every month. That was the very last time I ever got a flu shot. From then on, every year to this day, I turned down getting a flu shot no matter how much my doctors suggested it. One of which insisted to me there was no way I could’ve come down with a cold so frequently because of the flu shot.
Fast forward years later to the covid pandemic. Just like the more established fly shots, I was skeptical of the new vaccine. It didn’t help that every now and then on the internet I was reading about how some people were having some kind of bad, negative reactions directly after getting the vaccine. So, I decided to really hold out on this one.
In the meantime, my mother got the vaccine (and a couple of boosters) because her place of employment (a government job) required her to do so or face being fired. Afterwards she still came down with covid and had to be quarantined as a result. Her health worsened in the following couple of years.
I do not know if this is from natural aging or whether or not the vaccine has contributes to her health decline. She has seen numerous doctors for her various ailments, been to those urgent care walk in centers countless times, and has been held overnight in the hospital to try to see what’s wrong. But they haven’t been able to exactly pinpoint what’s wrong. Recently she was fitted with a heart monitor. Something she’s never had to wear before
My brother, a far leftist who thinks all us Republicans ought to be shot (as in by firing squad), got the vaccine because he fell for all the pro vaccine propaganda and got the vaccine because he felt it was out of a sense of duty to his community and the public at large. He was not only protecting himself, but his fellow man, the way he saw it. On more than one occasion he lectured me to get the vaccine, which I ignored.
He, like mother, has come down with more physical ailments so painful and severe, he had me bring him to the emergency room at the hospital a couple times so far. Like mother, they were unable to diagnose what was wrong with him, much less a way to heal him.
I on the other hand, still unvaccinated, I came down with covid. I do not know how I caught it. From my brother? From my mother? From a total stranger I ran across the few times I left my house? Either way, it was like a very mild cold. But instead of running its course in a few days like a normal cold, it lasted me a whole month. Now I have natural immunity and none of the medical side effects my brother and mother are possibly suffering from.
My situation is remarkably similar to your observations.
When you’re in your foxhole and a round whizzes by close... happenstance. another? Eh... maybe coincidence. A third. You’re under fire, do something quick!
The shills and liberals will tell you you should get out your foxhole and conduct an investigation because correlation is not causality, after all. So find out where the bullets hit, take some measurements, walk back to where they could have come from, interview the dudes in funny uniforms hiding in the brush and just find out what happened. Write everything up, mail it to Quantico and have it analyzed by a subject matter expert. Because without doing that, you really can’t be sure of anything.
That is so ridiculous I can’t believe they still come on here and try to make that case.