VAERS has been around a long time, but all the sudden during the scamdemic it was deemed unreliable.
It was always anecdotal and therefore somewhat meaningless. Never meant to be a scientifically accurate set of data, but rather a collection point for all the perceived and real side effects of drugs so that they could then be addressed and studied. One of the results was the requirement that all “known” side effects be listed with any prescription drug you get, hence the completely useless mice type they give you listing dozens of every kind of woe you can imagine: headache, constipation, diarrhea, fatigue; the ever popular “anal leakage”, and so on and so forth.
That VAERS was ever reliable in the first place was the lie. But it was at least a source of some data besides the formal studies that drug companies made of their own drugs, with the insane expectation that they would be unbiased. And as Peter and Jim point out, even a good study has to account for the placebo effect.
The truth is we will never know the truth about the vaccine. The truth has been hopelessly and permanently compromised. There are only a few facts we know for certain:
1. It causes myocarditis in young males (but so does covid the disease).
2. It is not anywhere near 100% effective at stopping transmission.
3. It does seem to lessen severity of disease in certain groups (the old and sick).
4. It becomes less effective as the virus evolves.
5. It is a massive money maker for the drug corporations.
That’s it. All the rest is speculation, conspiracy theories, or utterly muddled conclusions from incomplete data. The speculations, conspiracy theories and muddled conclusions may be true. They also might not be. Probably some are and some are not or some are in a modified way.
It’s reasonable to conclude that in certain groups the possible risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefits and therefore those groups should never receive it. Children and young adult males first and foremost. Beyond that it should be the personal choice of every individual. Mandating the vaccine to keep your job or stay in the military or for children to go to school, for a disease that we quickly figured out had a death rate not much worse than influenza is deplorable authoritarian overreach made possible by portraying a flu-like illness into a terrifying monster so the public would be frightened into accepting these mandates.
However, making the vaccine into a similar horrifying monster is also not helpful. There are men now who refuse to consider marrying a woman who has had the vaccine because of the belief the vaccine is “in her DNA” and will contaminate her children. Is banishing someone who has had the vaccine any different from banishing someone who has not? Extremism on both sides.
This whole thing needs to go away. Get out of our collective minds. Covid has become just a bad cold. The vaccine and boosters need to go away now and we need to put this whole catastrophe behind us.
What we need to do now is make sure it never happens again. Not the pandemic, there will be other pandemics, but allowing government to use a pandemic for a power and money grab, to force us out of our jobs, destroy our businesses, damage the supply chain, lock us into our homes, arrest us for walking on the beach, and fix an election with unvetted mail in ballots.
That is the real threat, not anecdotal side effects of the vax.
Maybe we are now too complacent and pussified to make sure this never happens again.