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Thanks for further damaging safety/credibility of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the public’s for no good reason. It’s obvious that this was completely political act. Wasn’t Macron spreading the rumor just a few weeks ago that the vaccine isn’t effective for those 65 and older?

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I thought you were joking about Macron but: https://www.bbc.com/news/55919245

Every country has their own system that has different standards. Stop spreading fud, Switzerland that is not very much EU also says they need more data on over 55. The biggest fuzz regarding blood clots was started by Norway, not EU. Americans still haven't approved AZ. The only damage to vaccines are by people who use the political card for vaccines. It's like saying not using sputnik is only political because Lancet agreed with the study. Why certain people want to treat vaccines like holy cows? Always comes from anglosphere.

“8% effective in over 65s” from the German press, “quasi-ineffective in over 65s” from Macron, and “I’m not going to take it because I’m 67” from Merkel, all sound like there is some politics involved to be.

The Norwegian cases don’t make any sense statistically. If they were correct, we would have seen 100s of cases in the UK by now.

Why wouldn't the Norwegian cases make sense? Is there a compelling reason why there can't be a genetic factor at play in the Norwegian population?

Lack of human gene diversity.

I was with you until you ended your anti-generalisation with a great generalisation: “always comes from anglosphere”

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