[astroid]

In my opinion, it is not. I am vaccinated and I used this site to make sure my batch wasn't 'bad' before getting the injection.

Regardless of how you feel about vaccines, 95% of the bad reactions are linked to 5% of the batches. I'm not going to jump to conclusions, but on the surface at least that seems to suggest a manufacturing or quality control issue that may have been missed.

Actually taking a closer look it was a different URL I used, but the same software to make sure I was making the safest most informed decision I was able to. I think the author posted the code somewhere too and open sourced it (I don't have a link as I'm not affiliated, just happy someone built this).

So from my perspective this is an interesting data analysis project, an interesting observation on manufacturing processes, and enables people to more confidently get the jab if they are hesitant due to the known possibility of side effects that this can help mitigate.

Normally I lurk here but today I built an account to make this point, as I don't like to see the chilling effect that labeling anything that isn't all roses as antivax propaganda.

[benpiper]

As a sidenote, it seems like the YC anti-abuse system could use a second look and possibly some tuning. Apparently a handful of accounts have been serial downvoting anything that even suggests vaccine manufacturing or preparation errors have occurred.