| > We fundamentally do not understand the human body. This is not true. We understand a great deal about the human body. What's relevant here is that we understand the mechanisms that cause serious vaccine side-effects, and we understand why those side-effects appear within a few months. > Spike protein accumulating in cardiac tissue leading to myocarditis. Myocarditis occurs soon after vaccination, not long afterwards. It's also a very rare side-effect (it actually occurs more often from the virus itself). > The whole point of a vaccine is to cause long term effects. That intended effect is immunity to disease. What does this have to do with long-term adverse side-effects? The types of changes that a vaccine causes in the immune system are understood, and the reasons why those changes sometimes cause adverse side-effects are also understood. The mechanisms do not spring into action years later. The side-effects begin within months, at the latest. > "Nothing else could possibly persist" smacks of hubris to me. You're just dismissing immunology out-of-hand, based on vague statements about science not knowing how the body works. > especially when the process has been politicized. The politicization was on the side of the vaccine "skeptics." One of the most infuriating aspects of the pandemic has been how the most effective single tool for saving lives, a tool that has minuscule risks, has been subject to so much FUD. This tool is safe enough and beneficial enough that I would have absolutely no problem with mandating it for participation in society, the same way that seat belts and airbags are mandated. |