I'm no anti vax but this covid vaccine got me feeling sus

Fearing a second round of this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories#Cutter_incident

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Dude these vaccines haven't even finished their tests and gained approval yet last time I checked. And there is no real reason why they should be safer, many vaccines have a few rare allergy problems when they come out, it's just that now every exceedingly rare issue is amplified 100x because everyone is hyperfocusing on the vaccines. They all seem to be perfectly safe so far, including the Cuban, Chinese and Russian ones, maybe with an asterisk on AstraZeneca. 3 people out of hundreds of thousands who have received it so far having allergic reactions is a silly thing to freak out about.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          So far what I’ve read on here has me troubled.

          Yes, this is the issue, people who have no clue what they're talking about doing the whole "big pharma is bad therefore the vaccines are scary too" bit. And now the new thing is freaking out about fucking rare allergic reactions. We're all gonna get killed because some people were spooked by extremely rare allergies after it was administered to a few hundreds of thousands of people. Which, like, even if someone gets an allergic reaction, these things are very well understood and you can be treated in a very straightforward way, unlike, you know, covid. The mortality rate of anaphylaxis is literally lower than covid (with deaths usually happening because of inability to access a hospital, not in a setting where you were literally already in a hospital receiving a vaccine), and we're talking about 3 cases in hundreds of thousands.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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      4 years ago

      Not mentioning the American vaccines seem to mainly work on white people because they didn't do enough testing for anything more diverse than mayonnaise.