oski003 said:
1) I do not doubt the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine at peak immunogenicity against current U.S. variants. It is a non-issue.
2) I do believe the number is 5, but 4 vs 5 does not matter that much anyway.
3) The FDA accepted the trial investigators conclusion. Okay.
You are now nitpicking because you do not like my message. For what it is worth, I have gotten both my flu shot and the moderna shot over the last 6 months or so. My kids have gotten every recommended vaccination.
I absolutely believe that the eua vaccines have saved lives, and have allowed many, including myself, to partially return to normalcy. I know many of you believe otherwise, but I believe we will have covid 19 vaccine booster shots very soon. I hope safer vaccines will be developed for that purpose, and we are still developing such in the USA.
For the sake of many kids, I hope you are right and the prevalence of serious adverse events with Pfizer etc are combinations of large amounts of false VAERS data, people lying on the internet, extremely rare local news stories, and fluky coincidences.
LOL your entire history of posting on the vaccines is nitpicking in order to cast doubt and contribute to vaccine hesitancy. You aren't providing a balanced view - you are presenting misleading info every which way you can. In this very thread you referenced blood clots from a vaccine never approved in the US to make people think we were using unsafe vaccines.
Let's look at the SAEs that you are using to claim that Pfizer is unsafe for 12-15 year olds. Do you have a basis for believing the number is 5 instead of 4? Both round to 0.4%. The reason you are sticking with 5 is so you can claim 5x as many SAEs rather than 3 out of 1,100 more SAEs. The FDA doesn't appear to think there is an issue here but you are "just asking questions."
As for your misleading reference in your final paragraph, this is another perfect example of innumeracy. 150+ million people have been vaccinated in the US, just about half the country. So of course you are going to have lots of instances of life happening to people who were recently vaccinated. My friend's grandmother died recently following her vaccination but I'm pretty sure the vaccine didn't cause her cancer. It's not about coincidences, it's just reality.
As long as you continue to spread misleading and dangerous information about the vaccines, I (and others) will call you out for it. You have a right to your opinions, but you don't have a right to spew them without criticism on the internet.
Unfortunately there are enough vaccine hesitant people out there that can be swayed by false and misleading information and it's going to make it harder (if possible at all) to achieve herd immunity in this country. As a result, we will have to suffer through the pandemic, negative health and economic consequences and all) even longer than necessary. Ironically the contribution you are making to this debate is likely going to result in more children having to be vaccinated to make up for the selfish, uninformed vaccine hesitant crowd who listens to false and misleading anti-vaxxer propaganda.