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by himinlomax 1757 days ago
> Mind you people are still getting compensated in court for autoimmune disorders arising from the Hep-B vaccine, even though no causal link was found.

That's because the standards for being compensated in vaccine court are very, very low, by design, and there is indeed a vaccine court of sorts in the US. It was set up specifically to address the fact herd immunity is so extremely valuable to society as a whole that it's worth having some people be harmed by the vaccine to achieve it because many more people will be saved by it, but not necessarily the same people. Anyone who suffers basically anything that could possibly be linked to a vaccine is then indemnified by that court, even though the vast majority of those who are were probably not indeed suffering because of the vaccine.

Don't take it as a proof that the vaccine is at fault, it's fallacious and is just one in the long list of completely idiotic arguments antivax cultists use. It makes barely more sense than calling ARNm "gene therapy" or complaining about non-existent mercury.

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I wish they had put mercury into the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. At least you could use a vial for more than a few hours if they did that. Currently you have to throw away doses because bacteria may have started growing in them. The type of mercury they use in vaccines kills bacteria very well.
I don't think it's got anything to do with bacteria, it's the RNA disintegrating.