These are the facts, these are the sources, this is the analysis. Everyone reading this: use your common sense, your logic and your brain to draw your own conclusions. Strip away your ego, your self-righteousness and your herd mentality, and view this with a totally open mind. I'm not typing all this just for Torque, but for all to see. This is not about vaxxers vs. anti-vaxxers. If you're seeing it that way, you've already fallen into the very trap you're trying to avoid.
The CDC's published ADRs for the vaccines is VASTLY underreported by at least a factor of 5X. Not even the VAERS database has all the available data.
But let's assume for the moment that your math about the ADRs has some merit, and the vaccines are as safe as you say.
The bigger question is then, why take the vaccines at all? Just because they are safe?
Since you like math, go out and gather the stat data, crunch the numbers, and then mathematically show me the proof that having more of the world's population vaccinated would do ANYTHING to:
1) Stop someone from contracting CV-19. This is a proven fact now that it does not protect someone from getting it.
2) Stop or slow the spread of the virus. Countries with the highest reported vaccination rates inexplicably have the highest number of newly reported cases, literally off the charts. (Hint: because the vaccinated are the ones spreading it)
3) Stop the extreme reaction cases from going into the ICU, or even dying. That was the original purpose of the vaccine, to prevent that. There are people who are 100% vaxxed (2, 3 jabs) that are still ending up in the ICU and dying.
4) Stop lockdowns, mask wearing, and/or having to have proof of vaccine papers to go anywhere and do anything. There are now countries with 90%+, even near 99% vaccinated, that still have to live under these draconian violations of their civil liberties. Why? If the populous are all vaccinated, then what is there to fear? Shouldn't they have their freedoms?
Torque, I have nothing against you personally, and I actually quite like many of your posts on WO. Frankly, I currently don't have the time or the state of mind to answer the barrage of questions and analysis you are asking me to do above. I did my part, I told my story, which I felt was a duty to my fellow WOers with whom I virtually hang out every day, as I did to many of my friends and relatives in real life. I did my analysis with official numbers and those you provided yourself earlier. To me, the conclusion is overwhelmingly in favor of the vaccines. To you and others it may not be so. That's OK. I just wanted to publish my story, my analysis and my conclusions for everyone to see and evaluate. Clearly, you didn't like it and didn't appreciate it. That's OK, just scroll past it.
Strip away your ego, self-righteousness, and herd mentality, and ask yourself, who should you be getting the vaccine for, and why? Where's the data to support the theory of "more vaccinated + forever boosters == eradicate or stop the spread of Covid"?
Honest answer: I got the vaccine because I don't want to die like 10 of my friends and relatives died. I want to be part of the other group, where ZERO have died. See my analysis in my earlier post to see how this is also reflected and generalized in a world-wide scale. This is not fear, it's common sense and logic.
We are at war. Two choices:
1. Go out to battle with the only readily accessible protection we've got. A shield. Not perfect, not 100% effective, has a funny shape and the metal is rough and heavy, but it's a shield. It will protect us to a significant degree, and the figures clearly confirm it. This shield is being used and abused by pharmaceutical companies to gain huge profits, governments use and abuse it to gain political power and exert control on the masses. The media use and abuse it to gain influence and promote their own evil agendas. BUT IT'S STILL A SHIELD!
2. Go out to battle completely naked, wish ourselves good luck, or even worse, pray to some supernatural entity to protect us. Somehow I feel the odds will be against us. And, do you know what the most tragic part of all this is? Pfizer/Moderna will still get super-rich, governments will still use and abuse the system to control the masses. But we'll be DEAD.
DEAD! A 20-second news report.
The choice is ours.