Kick wrote on Dec 31
st, 2020 at 2:55am:
I also am only slightly ribbing. I feel as a healthcare worker, particularly one that works with immunocompromised at risk people, an obligation to challenge inaccurate health misinformation. Sadly that's what I've found all of the "evidence" J has posted to be.
Update:
Last night, by the time I got to bed, my arm felt basically completely fine. Now I've woken up, my arm is hurting a bit, but still less than the flu vaccine. No fever, no headache. I feel fine.
Now, quick point I want to make. I don't want anyone to think that if I have a neutral (or positive) experience with this vaccine that I will be using that as evidence that the vaccine is fine and perfectly safe. No. For exactly the same reasons I dismissed the nurse who developed Bell's palsy as being only a singular experience with no causal link to the vaccine, if I have no reaction or very little reaction, that does not, ON ITS OWN, mean the vaccine is safe and fine. My experience is a singular experience, more wide scale studies and monitoring is required to assess the true safety of the vaccine. I wouldn't want to fall into the same traps I argued against. I can speak only for my experience.
The internet, generally speaking, is the mob and the mob has a hard time with nuance.
I feel the same way if I end up getting a particularly bad case of covid, hell if I die from it. That singular experience doesn't negate the average stats we have on this disease, or the vaccine or anything else. Let's be balanced here. Honestly if I do end up getting covid I hope it's not too bad because some of the best sleep I've ever had was while sick. Almost makes it worth it. Almost.