Let's try a little thought experiment. How many people get ill every day? I imagine a lot, since we have lots of doctors and lots of hospitals and they all appear to stay quite busy. Now we've vaccinated at least one in three Americans, so it stands to reason that those who were going to get sick would do so after they got their vaccine. It is possible that the vaccine itself exacerbated some allowing the illness to come to the fore, but my guess is that it did nothing, and they just got sick after being vaccinated.
Sadly, those without much cognitive function would think that if someone were vaccinated and got hit by a truck, the vaccine causes truck accidents. I've had this conversation over and over. The only reports of this sort of thing are on right wing blogs. Not even an hint of it on Fox News or any other journalistic outlet. Not a hint of it in the scientific literature. First rule of critical thinking is to evaluate the source.
As far as my experience, everyone I know and everyone I work with has been vaccinated. I have yet to hear about one adverse event beyond a sore arm and a little fever.
Normally yes, evaluate the source. But we are in a situation where all sources are sharply divided and biased one way or the other. There is a lack of truly objective sources of information.
Having said that I agree with you. I'm not saying the vaccines aren't causing injury, I'm saying I don't necessarily believe
everything reported after the jab is vaccine caused.
My mother for example. She got the Pfizer vaccine a few months ago. This weekend she had an episode of cardiac arrhythmia. No way in hell do I think the vaccine caused it. She already had congestive heart failure and is 94 years old. SVT is extremely common in such a scenario. There is no doubt in my mind this event would have occurred regardless. And since she spent the night in the hospital, possibly exposed to covid, I'm glad she is vaccinated. Even if it doesn't work as well now, it still gives
some protection.
Even in cases where people have reactions immediately after the jab and it seems obvious the vaccine caused it. For example, one woman who died within days of getting vaccinated sure looks suspicious that the vaccine killed her. But turns out she had liver damage, and she had possibly taken a lot of acetaminophen which over time causes liver failure. In this case, maybe she took a bunch of Tylenol for the flu like symptoms the jab gave her, and if she regularly takes a lot of Tylenol, it might have pushed her liver over the edge.
In that case, we can say the vaccine DID cause her death, as the cause of her taking the final fatal dose of Tylenol, but it was not the true cause. If not the jab, she would have succumbed the next time she got a headache and popped a handful of OTC painkillers.
In that case I don't think it's known by the pubic whether she abused Tylenol but we need to remain open to the possibility and in any case, just like an NTSB plane crash investigation, consider all possibilities and collect as much evidence as we can to objectively get at the truth.
We don't do that when we make quick assumptions about cause/effect just because of chronological alignment. But neither can we dismiss the possibility the vaccine caused the injury. In every case they need to do a full and objective investigation. Unfortunately I don't know if anyone is doing that, it seems everyone has a bias one way or the other. This is a deplorable result of allowing covid to become politicized.