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by native_samples 1756 days ago
> Are people dying from the vaccine? No.

Perhaps this explains a lot of the more fanatical aspects of those pushing vaccines-for-all. There are absolutely people dying of the vaccine, and who were at very low risk of dying of COVID. For example, this TV presenter:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/26/bbc-presenter-di...

"A BBC presenter died from a blood clot on the brain due to complications of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, a coroner has concluded. Lisa Shaw died in May, just over three weeks after she had her first dose of the jab, an inquest in Newcastle heard on Thursday."

Although that article admits the connection, usually media reports about people who died shortly after taking their vaccine simply don't mention it at all. Like this teenager:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/simone-scott-oct-7-2001-...

The parents worked with Berensen on the story and confirmed on Twitter that it is fully real. But if you search the name Simone Scott on Google you will be given lots of news articles that didn't talk to the parents, and which claim she died of a "mysterious illness" or even "a virus" (unnamed). In other words, vaccine-linked deaths are going unreported or outright misreported, with rare exceptions like famous TV personalities.

Or this hip hop artist who died at 42 of a heart attack, 28 days after being vaccinated (heart attacks being a known side effect). None of the news articles about his death mention the proximity to the vaccine: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/16/a-linchpin-tri... and https://www.bitchute.com/video/GIe8s0JTv7rG/ has tweets showing his date of vaccination.

The VAERS database tracks reports of deaths that occur shortly after being vaccinated.

https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality

Look at the graph of reports of death by onset in days. Most deaths occur on the day of the vaccination or within just a few days later, strongly suggesting causality, especially as only the most motivated people will learn how to report to VAERS - it's optional, people are not being informed about it ahead of time, and there are many reports of the health system refusing to help file reports.

Today there was a report that COVID vaccines are ~100x as deadly as flu vaccines. It's behind a paywall so I haven't read it, but it sounds plausible when you look at the numbers. Deaths are obviously not the only problem that can arise. Many people are reporting injuries of various kinds, sometimes quite serious ones. Browse the reports on the site to see for yourself.

At any rate, there has never been any question that some people will be killed or maimed by the vaccine in such a large rollout. Even Bill Gates admitted that right at the start. These things are always cost/benefit calculations. The question is what exactly is the cost. In the current environment of absolute hostility to anything that could slow down the rollout, it's very unclear anyone really knows.