Isn’t this somewhat disingenuous? Cause I know more than a couple post have been made about stories where the family of the dead say they were perfectly healthy up until they got vaccinated and died shortly after
Gotta admit, those stories I keep seeing popping up are pretty compelling. Of course, we have almost 8 billion people in the world, ~400 million in America, and healthy young people die every day. But it's disturbing and certainly gives me pause. I'm not prepared to say "alright that's it, I am 100% sure that the vaccine killed them and nothing you can say will change my mind"... but it gives me pause, for sure.
I feel like it's very rare to find someone with a truly open mind about this subject, these days. Everyone either religiously sides with the establishment and is pro-vaccine, or religiously sides with the "covid vaccine is evil and is killing everybody and the whole pandemic is just an attempt to implement the new world order". And it's clear that neither side is willing to even consider that they might not be totally correct.
Personally my views have changed a lot since the beginning. And continue to change. First and foremost, I am well aware that I don't know the truth and can't; I am not one of those people who is privileged with the inside scoop, nor is anyone on this forum (to my knowledge). My current working theory is that the initial response/lockdowns was a sensible and well-intentioned move, given we did not know what to expect. Also, the vaccines were a real attempt to mitigate harm, and were quite effective against the original version of the virus. BUT, it has gone vastly downhill from there. Covid itself has mutated into something much less dangerous, and lockdowns are no longer in any way appropriate. I'm not sure it was even worth causing so much damage to society in the first place, even when the disease was deadlier, but at least I think that initial move was the responsible and sensible thing to do. The vaccines
clearly are - at absolute best - minimally effective against today's covid virus. At worst, they actually make you more susceptible (for me the jury is out on that, because I can't tell what to trust so I reserve forming a conviction). The only conclusion I can draw about why they are continuing to be pushed is that it is a massive cash grab, which certainly lines up with how big pharma operates. They made shit tons of doses, they're probably continuing to make more, and by god, they have to sell them, because if revenue doesn't go up every quarter, the shareholders will be upset and a CEO is gonna get fired. I don't think there is a more sinister motive than that... corporate greed is plenty sinister already. It's sheer greed, like it always is.
The media/establishment pushes fear every time people start to get settled because it sells more vaccines and keeps people in the mindset to accept seasonal covid shots, like the flu shot (another hefty money maker, but with a hell of a lot longer track record of human data). That said, I see plenty of evidence that "long covid" is actually a thing that happens to some people, so I don't think covid is "just the sniffles", at least not for everybody. But the way they have some people, like my poor girlfriend, believing that 25% of all people who get covid develop long covid, that is fucked up, and it pisses me off that they're taking advantage of scared people like that.
I got fully vaxxed early on, and got one booster, against my better judgment, due to social pressure. I will not be getting more. I've also had covid twice. I haven't had any troubling side effects from either covid or the vaccine, and I'm not too worried about it, but I would be lying if I said that I am not a little worried in the back of my mind. About both the potential for the vaccine to manifest problems down the road, and for covid itself to manifest problems down the road. But I feel more comfortable in the future allowing my body to do the thing it's built to do, without getting any more injections.
I'm sick to fucking death of this whole thing, and hearing about it. My friends basically all are over it and live their lives normally. I try, and mostly do, but my girlfriend and my family are firmly in the "vaccine good, covid scary, government good" camp, whereas I am skeptical of all sides. So my life is somewhat affected. But I only see my family twice a year so I am only occasionally affected by them, which is good because they're WAY more intense about it than my girlfriend. My sister and her husband literally didn't leave their house for the entire year of 2020 except to take brief walks once a week, double masked walks, and they disinfected themselves when they came back inside. They even had groceries delivered, and wore masks to step outside to get the boxes, and washed every item with hand sanitizer or bleach. The only topic of conversation with them was how immoral those "trump supporting idiots" were who refused to wear masks or get vaccinated. So tedious and annoying, no ability to see nuance whatsoever. My girlfriend and I made a deal where if she feels I took a risk that is unacceptable to her, we will isolate in separate areas of the house until a few days go by and I am not getting sick. Rather than her trying to tell me what I can and can't do. Which I appreciate, but man do I wish she wasn't so affected by all the fear pushing.
I will probably have a different opinion in 6 months, in a year, to some extent, because I'm trying my best to not allow myself to become stuck in a camp like it seems almost everyone is. There aren't too many of us, it seems. Sadly, that's also the case with most "hot button", wedge issues in America/the world. Tribalism and emotions have taken over objectivity and actual critical thinking. It has become threatening and/or immoral to people to even consider that they might be wrong, or that the other side might have some points. Politics has taken over every issue we face today, and it has become like religion has typically been throughout human history. Something that you have to be on the "right" side of or else you're immoral/the enemy, and if you question your group, you're committing a sin, so you do not allow yourself to truly question. Not everyone is like that, but it really seems like most people are, anymore.
