Recently a number of videos purporting to be people suffering tremor-related side-effects from vaccination have been going the rounds, in part due to Elon Musk gutting policies to prevent such dangerous nonsense. Worse still is Elon pushing his anti-vax garbage that is the same as the Russian and GOP stuff.
The vaccines are far safer than getting COVID, a disease that still kills hundreds of Americans still each day, the majority of them unvaccinated.
Are there side effects?
Yes, of course. Lethargy is a common one as is pain around the injection site. Myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart, is also observed in an extremely small number of people who get the vaccine, yet those numbers do not seem all that different than what appears in the general population. More studies need to be conducted to prove a correlation exists, yet QElon will use his soapbox to flat out lie on most things to push nearer to his goals, that he is likely lying above.
What are the effects of COVID?
Even DeSantis couldn't hide all the bodies his own lying straight-faced about the risks of not getting vaccinated, with over 80K reported dead in his state, likely representing less than half of actual deaths the virus contributed to. Besides just death, every body system infected that has been studied has shown to suffer short term to possibly permanent damage with infection. For many that means a condition called Long Covid with brain fog (blood vessel shredding might cause blockages in blood passageways in the brain), loss of senses to taste, smell and occasionally in the extremities, erectile dysfunction, myocarditis, pneumonia, increased risks of organ failure and others.
I believe the rise in RSV and Flu severity and duration this winter may be directly attributed to weakened immune systems following past mild COVID infections. Again, that is something that has yet to be studied though is plausible given how the virus has been shown to damage the immune system, and in some cases, use that immune system to decimate other body systems just to stave off death.
These people, Shaffer and Adams above, are not being intelligent people. They are flat out lying, promoting a stance to weaken US National security by pushing anti-Vax conspiracy. No one is known to have died because of vaccination. Millions have due to infection. While we can certainly debate the merits of some of the mitigation measures, the falsehoods that COVID was no big deal have killed so many Americans those pushing this garbage engaged in a so-called passive genocide.
Let’s assume Musk is being honest about his cousin and myocarditis. First it is treatable. Second, COVID causes far worse damage than inflammation. The first autopsy of an American killed by the disease showed she had a huge hole blown out of her artery causing a heart attack. Similarly, because COVID ravages tissues, blood clotting can cause loss of feeling, heart attacks and strokes as the body gets shredded from the inside out.
Sure some people have zero real effects, being lucky. The same thing happens with all diseases. Ebola for instance killed some 4,000 people, but there were some who got infected, gave the disease to others, and were never ill themselves. That is just how viruses play out.
Twitter did a good job tamping down the lies, which were promoted by Russia, the GOP, and others weaponizing the pandemic for political effect.
Again, these people aren’t being intelligent, only role-playing similar to how QAnon threaders around Thomas Schoenberger do this. The only problem is this sort of thread gets tens of millions of views, whereas the Cicada crew has hundreds.
There is almost negligible risk to getting the vaccines, especially the more advanced ones that do not use the whole virus to teach the body to recognize the threat safely. Think of it as sending Paul Revere to your body so it can stop the soon arriving invaders.
With tens of millions of people harmed with long COVID, and a high possibility of life long reduced immune response, those who had the least amount of protection will likely pay the highest prices.
My mother, who had polio as a child, currently struggles with some things more so now due to aging as an added factor of having had the disease. Similarly, in a decade we should expect Americans, particularly foolish ones that bought into the anti-vaccine propagandists, to have long term health complications.
The final one, is a joke.
Elon did though, again offer a drug referenced 42.0 price, nearly twice the market value of the company because he isn’t exactly able to filter. Which reminds me. Musk is presently being sued over his other 420 reference that messed with Tesla’s stock price.
He and his ilk are the worst fkn humans.