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When the vaccines came out I took a hard "wait and see" approach due to bad side effects from flu vaccines in the past. What tipped me off about these being bad vaccines were the outsized side effects I saw. To be fair I don't know anyone who had outlandish side effects, but many people I know personally were SICK. I don't mean like a little achy, a little run down. I mean "can't get out of bed" sick, for two days.
I had never seen a vaccine where sick days were BUILT IN. Like, hey we will give you sick days for your vaccine cause you're gonna be sick. And the strange parroting of, "It means your immune system is working!". No. I have two autoimmune diseases. If your immune system is working THAT well, guess what? Something is messed up.
I knew right away that these vaccines were off. I thought, nope, gonna wait a little more. And then a little more.
I'm so glad I did, and I suspect as time goes by, I will just be more and more glad. I think the small uptake on the boosters is America's vote on just how much they love and trust these vaccines.
I look at it as "risk analysis". What are the risks to me of getting Covid, of having a bad reaction to it, of having long Covid vs the known risks of vaccination.
Part of the issue here (imo) is that unlike most earlier vaccinations, this was brought out under emergency use, so people are required to report any adverse conditions whether or not they had anything to do with the vaccination. Unless they show it was linked, I'm not going to take the death of an 85 yr old cancer patient month after getting vaccinated as due to the "jab".
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