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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023

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We are talking about how the bivalent booster is associated with ischemic strokes, especially held against the risk of omicron.

Which it is not by the very report you are using. You've jumped from "The CDC reported a signal which they investigated and found nothing" to "The vaccine is associated with strokes" as though that were proven and established.

Why not go the whole hog and say the vaccine causes women to ride broomsticks to the meeting with the Devil? You are determined the vaccine is bad and then go looking for straws to build your house with, instead of looking at established risks and then forming an opinion.

Definite side-effects of getting the vaccine that have been established: muscle pains, fever, diarrhoea, mild allergic reaction.

Possibility of more serious side-effects: anaphylactic reaction

Very rare side effects

Very rare side effects may affect up to 1 in 10,000 people.

These include:

myocarditis

pericarditis

Myocarditis and pericarditis are inflammatory heart conditions.

The risk of these very rare conditions is higher in younger men.

These conditions are more likely to occur after the second dose and mostly happen within 14 days of getting the vaccine.

2 European studies have estimated the risk of myocarditis, after the second dose of the vaccine as:

1 additional case for every 7,600 men aged 12 to 29 (within 7 days)

1 additional case for every 5,320 men aged 16 to 24 (within 28 days)

We do not know the risk of myocarditis or other rare side effects after a booster dose yet.

If you want to argue that the risk for young men is too high as compared to the risk of contracting Covid and the effects of that illness, you have a valid case there. You do not have one for general scare-mongering.

Fair, I'm not going to rip off my wallpaper over elderly and at risk people receiving bivalent vaccines - precisely because I have a calculation of their quality life years remaining, that is very different from younger healthy people.

The exact people who benefit from a covid vaccine have less quality life years to live than those who do not.

The vaccine has a novel, not totally understood method of mRNA translation, and then goes through another not completely understood process of protein folding, and then enters the immune system (not completely understood). The pharmacokinetics of the nano lipid particle are not characterized or understood. And there is a concerning signal of a blood clot appearing in patient's brains.

I am not scare mongering, I am being highly critical, since I'm not the one defending the novel RNA transfection vaccines.

When they run trials for new vaccines, they will compare them to the harms that the RNA transfection vaccines caused, and the new vaccines are going to look amazing. My guess is they will use protein-adjuvanted methods.

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