[mjevans]

Coincidental variables are a major problem. If any vaccine or medication had side effects the only way it'd be noticed over that duration of time is if it occurred in a majority of recepients and not much at all in anyone else.

Most trial studies only follow subjects for about 6 to 12 months for the bulk of the study, and at longer intervals only to determine if already known good / bad differences between active an placebo populations persist and to what degree.

The number one thing that changes with X years of "long term" study data is the number of study participants.

Around the world we have seen an unprecedented 'Phase 4' trial in response to a global pandemic. In the USA alone over 100 million have been vaccinated with the new mRNA technology and most of us for far longer than it would take for new symptoms to show.

Contrast with placebo patients who shun the vaccines: They're overflowing hospitals right now causing real deaths to OTHERS who need emergency medical care for non-pandemic reasons. Those who survive are at risk of 'long haul COVID' symptoms at a greatly increase rate of occurrence and severity compared to the vaccines. Needless to add, the risk of death from the vaccine is far lower as well; even the J&J / AZ vaccines are still better than the risk of Delta (the variant that ravaged India).

[blitz_skull]

Well, for standard side-effects, you'd be right. But we aren't talking about a normal viral-vector vaccine. We're talking about an mRNA vaccine. A delivery-method which "temporarily modifies turns the cells in a localized area into protein-producing machines". (A fairly non-scientific excerpt I found online)

But the big question (at least for me) is, can this actually modify my DNA? Because if so, that's potentially a Big Deal™ that we should be able to object to or at least discuss, right? But while the CDC is busy telling everyone that RNA cannot possibly ever change DNA, a group of scientists at Harvard and MIT accidentally found out—oops, maybe it can.[0]

Now look, there's still a lot of squinting and determining to be done here. By no means should we halt everything. But as long as there's still questions like this out there, there can be no reasonable mandate.

[0]: https://sciencewithdrdoug.com/2021/02/15/breaking-study-shed... [0]b: (The link to the actual study): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/