Re: Corona
Posted: 30 Dec 2021, 11:24
I'm with Ponylady on this.
If you take the whole thing in context, no vaccine is entirely without side effects of some kind or other.
Flu vaccines give me pain at the injection point on occasion, which is a perfectly natural physical reaction to having something stuck in your flesh. Stick yourself with a sewing needle, accidentally, and the "injection point" will be sore for a while, not just in the immediate. So I'd eliminate pain at the injection point as a vaccine-specific cause - any vaccine. It's not the vaccine that causes the pain, it's the invasion of a sharp metal object into one's flesh.
That statistic basically has no meaning to me. Believe me, I do a lot of sewing - my fingers can witness to that.
As for the current COVID vaccines, as I mentioned in a previous post, they're designed for the original variant. That's why there are breakthrough cases - like the one I'm slowly recovering from right at this moment.
Also, whatever reactions observed are *always* amplified, inflated, dramatized and made to be much scarier than reality by the media, who are more interested by increasing readership/viewership/clicker-ship than by actually telling the truth in perspective. Why? Because people love to be scared. I like the term "fear porn" to describe what being served to us to lap up. I know that doesn't help those who died from/with reactions to being vaccinated, but that's the big picture, in perspective.
Take, for example, the AstraZeneca vaccine. It was widely reported, with great emphasis and breathless, bulgy-eyed excitement (almost jumping up and down with glee) by the media, that the vaccine caused blot clots. What they failed to mention is that COVID is even more likely to cause blot clots! So I got the AstraZeneca shot anyway, knowing that the chances of developing blood clots from the vaccine were less than that of being struck by lightning or getting the actual disease. I didn't pull this out of my ass just now (I'll leave that to the media and politicians). I looked it up back in the spring before I decided which vaccine to get. I did my bloody homework.
If you want blood clots, go sit in a plane for eight-plus hours without leaving your seat. Or spend a few weeks in a hospital bed (there's a reason why you get daily shots of a mild anti-coagulant when you're in the hospital).
There's also the unfortunate tendency of the media to confuse risk with danger. Danger is the probable consequence of something. Risk is the probability of that consequence of happening. Getting bad side effects from a vaccine is a great danger. Actually getting them is a very low risk/probability. The media will only report of side effects. Very rarely and almost in an aside tone, they will talk about the actual risk.
The media are a worse problem than the vaccine or the virus. Politicians not far behind with their Keystone Kops attempts to keep us safe (though their first concern is image, not public health).
So stop being scared by everything the media pulls out of its ass.
Now for the real news:
This morning, I'm feeling a lot better than any time since Christmas day when the symptoms started. I'm still a physical wreck but that's something I can deal with on my own terms. I know I can recover completely. I will recover completely.
Like Ponylady said, I survived way worse, way scarier. I'm a tough old mare, with attitude.
What I have learned through all my health challenges is that one's morale, one's determination to survive and overcome counts as much in recovering from whatever is trying to kill us. If I only looked at the worst case scenarios, the outcomes of my challenges would probably not be as rosy as they are today.
Being a tough old mare with attitude got me through all of that.
Remember that when you face your own challenges.
(I must be getting better - that was a respectable rant )
Jenny.
If you take the whole thing in context, no vaccine is entirely without side effects of some kind or other.
Flu vaccines give me pain at the injection point on occasion, which is a perfectly natural physical reaction to having something stuck in your flesh. Stick yourself with a sewing needle, accidentally, and the "injection point" will be sore for a while, not just in the immediate. So I'd eliminate pain at the injection point as a vaccine-specific cause - any vaccine. It's not the vaccine that causes the pain, it's the invasion of a sharp metal object into one's flesh.
That statistic basically has no meaning to me. Believe me, I do a lot of sewing - my fingers can witness to that.
As for the current COVID vaccines, as I mentioned in a previous post, they're designed for the original variant. That's why there are breakthrough cases - like the one I'm slowly recovering from right at this moment.
Also, whatever reactions observed are *always* amplified, inflated, dramatized and made to be much scarier than reality by the media, who are more interested by increasing readership/viewership/clicker-ship than by actually telling the truth in perspective. Why? Because people love to be scared. I like the term "fear porn" to describe what being served to us to lap up. I know that doesn't help those who died from/with reactions to being vaccinated, but that's the big picture, in perspective.
Take, for example, the AstraZeneca vaccine. It was widely reported, with great emphasis and breathless, bulgy-eyed excitement (almost jumping up and down with glee) by the media, that the vaccine caused blot clots. What they failed to mention is that COVID is even more likely to cause blot clots! So I got the AstraZeneca shot anyway, knowing that the chances of developing blood clots from the vaccine were less than that of being struck by lightning or getting the actual disease. I didn't pull this out of my ass just now (I'll leave that to the media and politicians). I looked it up back in the spring before I decided which vaccine to get. I did my bloody homework.
If you want blood clots, go sit in a plane for eight-plus hours without leaving your seat. Or spend a few weeks in a hospital bed (there's a reason why you get daily shots of a mild anti-coagulant when you're in the hospital).
There's also the unfortunate tendency of the media to confuse risk with danger. Danger is the probable consequence of something. Risk is the probability of that consequence of happening. Getting bad side effects from a vaccine is a great danger. Actually getting them is a very low risk/probability. The media will only report of side effects. Very rarely and almost in an aside tone, they will talk about the actual risk.
The media are a worse problem than the vaccine or the virus. Politicians not far behind with their Keystone Kops attempts to keep us safe (though their first concern is image, not public health).
So stop being scared by everything the media pulls out of its ass.
Now for the real news:
This morning, I'm feeling a lot better than any time since Christmas day when the symptoms started. I'm still a physical wreck but that's something I can deal with on my own terms. I know I can recover completely. I will recover completely.
Like Ponylady said, I survived way worse, way scarier. I'm a tough old mare, with attitude.
What I have learned through all my health challenges is that one's morale, one's determination to survive and overcome counts as much in recovering from whatever is trying to kill us. If I only looked at the worst case scenarios, the outcomes of my challenges would probably not be as rosy as they are today.
Being a tough old mare with attitude got me through all of that.
Remember that when you face your own challenges.
(I must be getting better - that was a respectable rant )
Jenny.