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Avoiding discussion of vaccine side effects isn’t pro-vaccine. It’s anti-science.
Harvard Journal of Public Health ^ | Oct 2024 | Anthony Flint

Posted on 07/21/2025 9:47:38 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

“I wear no tin-foil hat. I’m asking for the ability to officially document what happened to me.”

Three and a half years ago I contracted Guillain Barre Syndrome after getting the Jansen-J&J viral vector vaccine for COVID-19. The neurological disorder has left me hobbled by numb hands and feet, staggering around imbalanced, and battling debilitating fatigue. It has also left me, and thousands of others, feeling ignored and unheard by the government and the public health establishment.

I wrote about the experience in 2021 in The Boston Globe, after the FDA attached a warning to the J&J shot, citing an unacceptable occurrence of this adverse effect. At the time, I bemoaned that it was so difficult to talk about vaccine side effects and argued that government and public health officials should just face up to them honestly. People could handle the truth, I said, and everyone would benefit because acknowledging those rare occasions when things go wrong would allow vaccine makers to design a better product.

Three years later, that still hasn’t happened. Public health officials, cowed by the anti-vax crowd, stuck to the line that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. And an existing system to address people injured by vaccines, established under President Ronald Reagan, has been all but abandoned.

…GBS is fundamentally an auto-immune response. Vaccines work by tricking the immune system into attacking a target, like a representation of the coronavirus. In some people, rogue antibodies take that fight too far and start attacking the body’s peripheral nervous system—a horrifying and thoroughly damaging case of friendly fire… But unlike some other countries (Canada comes to mind), the United States is not managing this problem in the straightforward and sober manner it warrants.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; cdc; covid; fauci; fda; hhs; jj; moderna; mrna; notsafeiseffective; pfizer; rfk; vaccines; vector

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Of course, vaccines save lives. But the “nothing to see here” posture regarding legitimate vaccine side effects is preventing government from having our backs and following up on flaws in the products—in the same the way it does when romaine lettuce or lunch meat gets contaminated, or air bags don’t function properly…

1 posted on 07/21/2025 9:47:38 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This reminded me of when I was a kid watching other kids trading base ball cards. “Got it, Got it, don’t Got it, Got it....”

Guillain Barr Syndrome..Got it


2 posted on 07/21/2025 9:52:25 AM PDT by Cold Heart (BP S GW)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

We tried to tell these fu**rs but but TRUMP and MAGA are anti Vax so we want all thr shots promoted by winter of death Biden and Colbert. Shouldn’t have taken the crap.


3 posted on 07/21/2025 9:54:55 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Of course, vaccines save lives.
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Of course.


4 posted on 07/21/2025 9:55:17 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Vaccines save lives!

— the lives of Fauci’s investment portfolios


5 posted on 07/21/2025 10:21:26 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Vaccines work and have saved many lives. No more smallpox, almost no more polio, etc.

But when your enemies tell you something is a vaccine and you better take it -- believing them isn't science.

6 posted on 07/21/2025 10:45:39 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Vaccines work by tricking the immune system into attacking a target”

There is the problem right there. These ARE NOT AND NEVER WERE vaccines or innoculations. The CDC had to use Orwellian “newspeak” to redefine the word “vaccine” to include these shots.


7 posted on 07/21/2025 11:14:46 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Cold Heart

This expert doesn’t trust the experts.


8 posted on 07/21/2025 11:15:23 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Back when I was getting lots of vaccines (70-early 2000s) the doctor always went over early warning signs of side effects with me and told me to call him if I showed any of them.

The one time I did he told me to go to the ER and he would meet me there.

When did this change?

9 posted on 07/21/2025 11:35:58 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Back when I was getting lots of vaccines (70-early 2000s) the doctor always went over early warning signs of side effects with me and told me to call him if I showed any of them.

The one time I did he told me to go to the ER and he would meet me there.

Doctor/patient culture has gone so downhill. I’m sure it’s a combination of so many factors. A combination of state AND private insurance/BigPharma overreach, toxic medical education system that does not instill nor reward humanity. General cultural decline of society that runs on dog eat dog, instead of “love thy neighbor. serve God and country.”

Plus the childhood vaccine schedule exploded to include dizzying dozens more requirements, barely spaced out.

10 posted on 07/21/2025 11:47:23 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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11 posted on 07/21/2025 4:45:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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