Posted on 05/12/2021 7:24:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I am not an anti-vaxxer, though I am sure to be labeled as such. Feel free to lump me in with the group of "hesitant" vaxxers, however. My logic is that we simply do not have enough data about the longer-term effects of the new vaccines and their delivery methods to know if they are really safe. All indications that I have read from many experts indicate that the vaccines and delivery method are safe, but life experience tells me to see how they stand the test of time. My analysis of COVID data also leads me to the conclusion that not everyone should get the vaccine.
Tucker Carlson pointed out recently that some 3,700 people in the U.S. who have received the COVID vaccine died shortly after receiving it. He gets his data from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). He also pointed out that about an average of 100 people die each year from the flu vaccine. He added that, after receiving the COVID vaccine, there were "nearly 900 non-fatal heart attacks in people who just received the shot. Twenty-seven hundred people reported unexplained chest pain. In all, the vaccine, according to the government reporting system, appears to have contributed to at least 8,000 hospitalizations."
Just looking at deaths, this means that about 35 per million (0.0037%) COVID-vaccinated Americans will die, as opposed to less than 1 per million (0.0001%) who die from the flu vaccine. Admittedly, these numbers are both very small, but they are significantly different from each other. They indicate that a person is 53 times more likely to die from the COVID vaccine than the flu vaccine.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Can anyone refute this statement by the author”
It is almost self refuted:
“I am using the same “death” criteria... if you had the COVID vaccine and died soon after — for whatever reason — the vaccine killed you.”
“this is because proper data analysis is hard”
“I still believe that the number of actual COVID deaths in the U.S. is less than 100,000.”
“If you had it to do over, would you get it again?”
I believe I had some level of previous Covid infection protection, so my need to get vaccinated is less than would be typical for my age of 62. Therefore, I’ve thought about it and I can’t say yes or no (personally) for sure, but probably yes because I may need to take care of my very old uncle or help an 80-year old friend, both of whom live in ‘Blue’ government areas. It’s not only a personal medical decision.
I believe people over 50 or with increased Covid risk susceptibility should generally get vaccinated for their medical well-being and medical persons working with Covid vulnerable people should get vaccinated or find other employment.
Note that:
“Reports of adverse events following the use of J&J/Janssen vaccine suggest an increased risk of a rare adverse event called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS). Nearly all reports of this serious condition, which involves blood clots with low platelets, have been in adult women younger than 50 years old.”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/JJUpdate.html
Therefore, women under age 50 probably should prefer the mRNA vaccines.
As for healthy Americans under age 50, there is also the need to ensure vaccine supplies to fight Covid variant spread around the globe.
Your body - your friends and relatives - your lifestyle - your decision.
Fascinating info about your sister—human belief systems are amazing things—throughout history humans have believed lots of crazy things that seem to contradict each other.
I think what is going on is “virtue signaling”. “Intelligent and good people do x, therefore I will do x.”
Of course if she picks the wrong folks to declare “intelligent” and “good”, things start to get weird....
;-)
RE: “I still believe that the number of actual COVID deaths in the U.S. is less than 100,000.”
Can you elaborate as to why you believe this to be so?
RE: “I still believe that the number of actual COVID deaths in the U.S. is less than 100,000.”
“Can you elaborate as to why you believe this to be so?”
I was quoting the author of the article.
He makes the situation seem worse by deliberately both inflating purported Vaccine deaths (from whatever reason, after having received vaccine), as well as arbitrarily reducing disease deaths severalfold, by a subjective “adjustment”.
We, his friends and family, disagree.
She leaves people alone and is live and let live so I dont discuss her health choices with her.
“What happened to you is irrelevant as to how it affects others.”
Remember Donald and Melania Trump got vaccinated.
I asked many people about their vaccination reactions before making my decision.
I signed up to get queued up, just in case.
I got an e-mail. I took the appointment offered.
Nowadays, walk-ups are readily available.
My decision was easier because I had only a small fraction of two hours to accept my first vaccination appointment slot.
I hate big, obtrusive government, but a medical decision should not be based on such hatred.
How mRNA Vaccines Work - Simply Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOvvyqJ-vwo
What Stops Body from Continuing to Produce the COVID-19 Spike Protein after Getting an mRNA Vaccine?
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Mar 16, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXnCcBHGDM
Is Vaccine “Shedding” A Threat To Unvaccinated Women? | A Doctor Explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwABLyOwPs
How Do mRNA Vaccines Work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0kfdZ8o_j4
How vaccines work against COVID-19: Science, Simplified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGTciX795o
The Thing About Vaccines... | Vaccine Controversies | Doctor Mike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WtUMvNjzQ
Anti-Vaxxers: How the Media Created a Monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egXV7H1CKng
Doctors prescribe medicines that are undoubtedly far more risky than Covid vaccines and somehow people here don’t have a cow over those far greater risk/reward scenarios.
Don’t let well-justified hatred of truly obnoxious government cloud your personal medical decision making.
Tell that to the virologists who are saying that shedding is happening.
The simple reporting bias you point out in post 20, could account for a few thousand, or a few tens of thousands of VAERS reports, out of over a quarter of a billion vaccine doses already administered in the USA.
Everyone is highly focused on COVID and its vaccines, whereas people tend to dismiss the significance of flu shots.
OK, vaxxer.
OK, vaxxers.
We won’t let your loaded shaming language affect a rational decision to avoid an untested remedy for a vastly overblown artificial crisis, either.
Links, please?
What’s your medical history?
Did anyone ask you this before they injected you with the experimental “vaccine”?
“My SIL and BIL who profess to be hard core conservatives both took the jab. We are still having a hard time believing it.”
I am also a “hard-core conservative” (I trace my conservatism to Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign), and I received the Pfizer vaccine shots. Political ideology should have no bearing on one’s evaluation of the risks and benefits of the Covid vaccine. At the same time, I would never argue that someone with a different evaluation of those risks and benefits should be forced by the state to receive the Covid vaccine.
Tylenol produces 56,000 emergency room visits, 2,500 hospital stays, and 450 deaths — per year.
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