walt
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- Mar 15, 2022
- 86
I just wanted to give a quick post highlighting my thoughts on the vaccine, and my previous thoughts on it, which were largely misinformed and guided mostly by paranoia. Maybe this can help someone out or reveal what kind of mentality is behind deniers etc.
When the vaccine first came out, I was actually pretty thankful. I'm a large believer in maintaining good public health, and a positive environment for discussions about science and things related to science. Unfortunately, I was born slightly immunocompromised, so I took it more seriously than your average person. I knew skepticism of it was going to be in full force in my country, but I never expected it to get to me, which it did. Regularly I browsed through social media, and a lot of it was littered with vaccine skepticism. Why? I thought to myself.
I can't really answer that question thoroughly, but because of my experiences with it, I can say a lot of it must have to do with ones already pre-existing paranoia. Whether this be skepticism of your government, your friends or family, or medical science in general, it feeds off of fear. I went digging through all of the studies people were throwing out there, the statistics, and this so-called "tyranny" of being forced to be vaccinated. None of it seemed to exist at all. The reports all confirmed what I had first thought, the vaccine is safe, efficient, has an extremely low mortality rate (lower than COVID-19), and all the side effects people have pointed to or fabricated are rare, or just false equivalencies in general.
(Even the VAERS numbers, as loose as they can be, confirm my original thoughts!!)
As much as I'd like to post everything I wrote to other people reporting about the vaccine, I cannot find those numbers any more. Unfortunately my old computer is gone. I urge anyone who actually develops a fear of the vaccine to do the research, and you will be shed light on this whole mess. The statistics are astonishingly different in any official reporting than what you read on social media. Regardless of if you do or do not, I feel sympathy for people who are extremely paranoid of medical science now, and scared of taking the vaccine. It is a scary place for anyone to be, really, arguing with your doctor, your family, or anyone you feel like is misguided.
Take care.
When the vaccine first came out, I was actually pretty thankful. I'm a large believer in maintaining good public health, and a positive environment for discussions about science and things related to science. Unfortunately, I was born slightly immunocompromised, so I took it more seriously than your average person. I knew skepticism of it was going to be in full force in my country, but I never expected it to get to me, which it did. Regularly I browsed through social media, and a lot of it was littered with vaccine skepticism. Why? I thought to myself.
I can't really answer that question thoroughly, but because of my experiences with it, I can say a lot of it must have to do with ones already pre-existing paranoia. Whether this be skepticism of your government, your friends or family, or medical science in general, it feeds off of fear. I went digging through all of the studies people were throwing out there, the statistics, and this so-called "tyranny" of being forced to be vaccinated. None of it seemed to exist at all. The reports all confirmed what I had first thought, the vaccine is safe, efficient, has an extremely low mortality rate (lower than COVID-19), and all the side effects people have pointed to or fabricated are rare, or just false equivalencies in general.
(Even the VAERS numbers, as loose as they can be, confirm my original thoughts!!)
As much as I'd like to post everything I wrote to other people reporting about the vaccine, I cannot find those numbers any more. Unfortunately my old computer is gone. I urge anyone who actually develops a fear of the vaccine to do the research, and you will be shed light on this whole mess. The statistics are astonishingly different in any official reporting than what you read on social media. Regardless of if you do or do not, I feel sympathy for people who are extremely paranoid of medical science now, and scared of taking the vaccine. It is a scary place for anyone to be, really, arguing with your doctor, your family, or anyone you feel like is misguided.
Take care.