Sanuk wrote:
If they had actually done long-term studies in advance, a lot of this would have been known. If the positive is unknown, so is the negative. 28 otherwise healthy people in Canada have died as a result of taking the vaccine and those healthy people had a very low risk of dying from Covid.
My wife and daughter are very hesitant to take a vaccine. We lived in the Philippines a few years ago when they introduced the Dengvaxia vaccine (to prevent Dengue fever) and administered it to 800,000 school children between ages 9-10. The drug was made by a company in France and I was there and heard nothing about how proven the drug was and how it would save lives and the drug company was only there to save lives. 14 children aged 9-10 died from the vaccine. These kids were perfectly healthy with a very low risk of getting dengue and they died. There were no long term studies on that vaccine either.
I think the mad rush to get a vaccine is simply the constant fear message we've been hearing for the last 14 months and I wish there would be more open discussions of the pros/cons of the vaccine and long term effects but anyone voicing an opinion is immediately shut down (just watch the reaction to this post). The shutting down of anyone who raises questions or concerns is the most troubling thing of this entire epidemic. It goes against all science principles and people seem to have no problem with it.
People talk about percentages and dismiss the side effects. They will say only 14 children died out of 800,000 so the vaccine is safe but those children were not sick and would not have died without the vaccine and if you are the parent of one of them (we know the parents of one child) it is no comfort to tell them the statistics.
The reaction to this post is because you're "facts" are incorrect. If you posted accurate information you might be able to engage in a real discussion.
Are there risks from getting any vaccine? Yes, no one is denying that. Do the risks outweigh the benefits? No.