Re: What you need to know about the covid vaccines

On 5/8/2024 11:16 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> writes:
 

ALL medical studies have verified _what_, exactly? That some tiny
percentage of vaccine recipients had some bad reaction?
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Side effects are present with almost all pharmaceuticals. Have you
never read the warnings on things like aspirin, acetaminophen and
ibuprofen? In fact, some percentage of peanut eaters die from the
experience. That doesn't mean peanut butter should be illegal, or that
grocers are trying to kill us.

 Side effects are a detriment that must be rationally balanced with the
benefits.  The benefits seem to have been real for older people, but for
babes in arms, young people, or pregnant women the harms, potential or
actual, clearly outweighed any tiny benefits.  The decision to try to
force everyone to take the shot was not made using any normal medical
judgement, other considerations took precedence.

"_Potential_ or actual" detriments is an excessively broad grouping; and I don't believe it's been shown that they have "clearly" outweighed the benefits. Data, please?
In any case, current evaluations of strategy are being made with the huge advantage of hindsight. Cast your mind back to images of tent structures in hospital parking lots, of patients lying in cots in hallways, of temporary morgues, of health care workers sickened or killed by the virus.
Pretending this was just the sniffles, as some right-wing Pollyannas are now doing, is way beyond unrealistic. It was a worldwide emergency, and the medical community was correct in trying hard to figure it out and prevent disaster.
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- Frank Krygowski