I'm not saying that I think the vaccine causes heart issues, but I definitely think governments wouldn't tell you the truth if it did.
[1] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/post-pandemic-stress-...
One died shortly after his vaccination. He developed high fever and after a few days his aorta bursted.
It’s just anecdotal data, I know.
Think a bit more about this. How many countries, how many people, how many hospitals you would have to silence to make that happen.
Also with respect to the football player. As far as I can tell it's been going around quite long and people are just noticing it more due to some highly televised event.
Sounds familiar?
But the data cannot simply be hand-waved away by politicians, nor easily controlled in the West. Look at what medical experts say when they publish analysis about the data - and you get as near to the truth as you can reasonably hope.
I don't believe it to be happening here though. I've not seen any evidence for that. There are plenty of papers examining everything from vaccine rollout strategy, mixing vaccines, dose spacing, side effects for all age groups, etc.
[1]: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/fc-bayern-kimmich-corona-l...
I'm generally with you on this point - governments just generally aren't that competent to EG fake the moon landings. However, I do look at how the narrative over the COVID 19 lab leak theory has changed from "You are racist and cancelled for even saying it" to "This sounds at least possible, if not probable."
So I don't think (if it were the case vaccines had harmful side effects) that it would stay secret forever, but it might stay secret long enough for people to take the vaccines.
///edit// Also this doesn't encourage confidence:
Wait what? FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants...
- who's vaccinated and hasn't had a positive PCR test
- who's vaccinated and has had a positive PCR test
- who's unvaccinated
Until that is clear, all these stories are basically clickbait. These issues could be caused by covid, the vaccines, or both. We just don't know.
We found increased risks of myocarditis associated with the first dose of ChAdOx1 and BNT162b2 vaccines and the first and second doses of the mRNA-1273 vaccine over the 1–28 days postvaccination period, and after a SARS-CoV-2 positive test. We estimated an extra two (95% confidence interval (CI) 0, 3), one (95% CI 0, 2) and six (95% CI 2, 8) myocarditis events per 1 million people vaccinated with ChAdOx1, BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273, respectively, in the 28 days following a first dose and an extra ten (95% CI 7, 11) myocarditis events per 1 million vaccinated in the 28 days after a second dose of mRNA-1273. This compares with an extra 40 (95% CI 38, 41) myocarditis events per 1 million patients in the 28 days following a SARS-CoV-2 positive test. We also observed increased risks of pericarditis and cardiac arrhythmias following a positive SARS-CoV-2 test. Similar associations were not observed with any of the COVID-19 vaccines, apart from an increased risk of arrhythmia following a second dose of mRNA-1273. Subgroup analyses by age showed the increased risk of myocarditis associated with the two mRNA vaccines was present only in those younger than 40.
Which is a tough read and far more subtle. The downsides of the vaccines need to be constantly weighed against the downsides of contracting Covid19 un-vaccinated. And this is different for different age groups (and very probably ethnicity, BMI, etc).
I bet people will take single lines from this article and shove them into tweets which shows exactly how harmful that can be, it does only one thing: Polarize. The truth is complex and you can't tell people to please refrain from commenting if you don't understand the concept of confidence intervals, for example.
I've been trying to stress this to friends on both sides, some (the minority) are angry that the government and (former) friends feel that they are obliged to inject themselves with a substance they don't understand, and some are angry that you can be so selfish that you don't want to join everyone in the only collective effort we have to beat that damn Covid19. Both want to die thinking "I did it my way". Both are primarily angry these days. What a shame.
I like this admission from the scientists, I think we can all get behind that:
By the end of September 2021, more than 6.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccination had been administered worldwide1. Clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines were underpowered to detect the rare adverse events that are important for risk–benefit evaluations and to inform clinical practice postvaccination. Therefore, identifying such rare adverse events is now a global scientific priority.