A major point of disagreement between people when discussing the COVID-19 vaccines is over whether they “work”. “Safe and effective” are words that constitute a mantra for vaccine advocates and a trigger for many vaccine skeptics. I want to scream when I see ads with soft music and condescending narration, implying vaccinating your children is an act of kindness and that they will love you for it. I am tempted to unfriend people with “I got my COVID vaccine” profile frames. I understand why these words “safe and effective” now need a trigger warning. Forcing vaccines on people, coercing them by threatening their education and livelihood if they don’t get them, even insidiously convincing people that don’t need them to take them is wrong. Hard stop. However, insisting no one should take the vaccine (and that’s what you are saying if you object to an acknowledgment of any efficacy) is the flip side of the vaccine mandate coin. It’s an attitude that is equivalent to the attack we saw on early COVID treatments over the last two years. We need to look at the data critically and make an informed decision-and that may not be the same for each individual. That’s my stance and I am not hiding a secret agenda to spout the same pro-vaccine narrative as the public health officials. My goal is to transparently explain what is known. Even if you believe the adverse events of these shots are grossly underreported and the efficacy greatly exaggerated-to the point where the cost/benefit is too great for any individual to take them, we should all be on the same side when it comes to assessing what constitutes efficacy and safety. So, bear with me and let’s look at the science behind the terms safe and effective.
In addition...in my City we are seeing massive health problems emerging. They aren’t rare. One young friend in construction has had FIVE CO-WORKERS disabled from the jab. Five! I’m a business owner. Every single friend I know with a business went all through 2020 with no uptick in sick days from staff. Those same businesses are now closing some days because they all have about 20% of their staff off sick at any given moment. All vaxed. In my business we had 16 of 40 off sick a few weeks ago. All vaxed. Those were guys on the tools. We have six workers in the office. Five off sick, one not. The one not? My son, not vaxed. All the rest vaxed. I have a $225,000 a year guy who has been sick since September. In January he got boosted. And he’s gone way down hill since then. His doctor has ‘diagnosed’ him with Long Haul COVID. Your analysis is not reasonable in the sense it uses data that is compromised to try to come up with something reasonable. That is gentlemanly. It isn’t reasonable, nor possible.
Thanks for this fulsome explanation. With a small study size, it seemed likely that variables like preexisting health conditions, weight, etc. would confound the results. I have long wondered how they could make the claim that the vaccine prevented severe outcomes. That just seems so speculative.
Thank you Kathryn. Your analysis is not complete however. First, Pfizer has repeatedly lied. They hid adverse events, they hid deaths. They exaggerated efficacy. They waged a psychological campaign on people for a year, and it continues. If you were investing with a stock broker and you caught him lying over and over. If he were receiving commissions for selling you a certain product and not another (Ivermectin). If he were exaggerating the financial strength of a company. If he tries to put you into a company with no track record of making good vaccines, and with a track record of massive successful lawsuits against it. YOU WOULDN’T INVEST with him. You’d pull your money. Pfizer hid adverse reactions. It did all those things. Common sense says no one should take a Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. No one.
I have to admit this is a pretty balanced explanation of things, and for that I say "job well done". I think the only thing I'd disagree with you on is the reliance on VAERS and the Pfizer and Moderna data, as I don't trust P and M, and VAERS seems to be under-reported by the government's own admission.
However, still like this article, and wish we saw more like this in mainstream media.
In addition...in my City we are seeing massive health problems emerging. They aren’t rare. One young friend in construction has had FIVE CO-WORKERS disabled from the jab. Five! I’m a business owner. Every single friend I know with a business went all through 2020 with no uptick in sick days from staff. Those same businesses are now closing some days because they all have about 20% of their staff off sick at any given moment. All vaxed. In my business we had 16 of 40 off sick a few weeks ago. All vaxed. Those were guys on the tools. We have six workers in the office. Five off sick, one not. The one not? My son, not vaxed. All the rest vaxed. I have a $225,000 a year guy who has been sick since September. In January he got boosted. And he’s gone way down hill since then. His doctor has ‘diagnosed’ him with Long Haul COVID. Your analysis is not reasonable in the sense it uses data that is compromised to try to come up with something reasonable. That is gentlemanly. It isn’t reasonable, nor possible.
Thanks for this fulsome explanation. With a small study size, it seemed likely that variables like preexisting health conditions, weight, etc. would confound the results. I have long wondered how they could make the claim that the vaccine prevented severe outcomes. That just seems so speculative.
Thank you Kathryn. Your analysis is not complete however. First, Pfizer has repeatedly lied. They hid adverse events, they hid deaths. They exaggerated efficacy. They waged a psychological campaign on people for a year, and it continues. If you were investing with a stock broker and you caught him lying over and over. If he were receiving commissions for selling you a certain product and not another (Ivermectin). If he were exaggerating the financial strength of a company. If he tries to put you into a company with no track record of making good vaccines, and with a track record of massive successful lawsuits against it. YOU WOULDN’T INVEST with him. You’d pull your money. Pfizer hid adverse reactions. It did all those things. Common sense says no one should take a Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. No one.
I have to admit this is a pretty balanced explanation of things, and for that I say "job well done". I think the only thing I'd disagree with you on is the reliance on VAERS and the Pfizer and Moderna data, as I don't trust P and M, and VAERS seems to be under-reported by the government's own admission.
However, still like this article, and wish we saw more like this in mainstream media.