I do find it quite ironic that the first bullet point suggests you listen to your friends concerns and which side effects she are concerned about. Isn't this the one thing the CDC and NIH are not going about these COVID vaccines? It seems pretty clear to me that the CDC is not listening to their own advice. The only issue here is that the "concerned friend" is millions of Americans.
It's quite disheartening to see that so many people will just fall for anything that is slapped with a "fact check" and colorful infographs. Even if the information is bs as long as it looks pretty then people will fall for it every time.
I have no background in science, nor do I have more than about a year's worth of college credits earned at CUNY community colleges, and those earned nearly 50 years ago. But I can think, and I react badly to being told to trust without a really good reason to do so.
More than 45 years ago I returned home one day to find a nice little sample package of Rely Tampons hanging from my front doorknob, and examined it with interest. Super hyper magically absorbent! Filled with sponge material that wouldn't let one drop leak. And I thought, you know, that maybe it's not all that healthy to keep all that soggy mass inside for a few too many hours. It's not all that much of a burden to change a regular tampon regularly, and one can use extra protection if needed. So I threw the nice sample package away. Two years later...
A couple of years ago I developed a case of shingles. Woke up with a scalp itching and aching the hell out of me, and then I developed about an inch-square patch of blistering on my neck. I began hyper-dosing with my trusty Vitamin C, and the rash didn't spread further though the stabbing intermittent pains in my scalp and ear were kind of aggravating. Had I known how great back and body aspirin is for situations like this the story wouldn't continue. But after a week of those stabbing pains I was a bit worn out so went to an urgent care center, and the very nice physician's asst. wanted to prescribe an anti-viral, and I asked why I needed it since I was pretty much rounding the bend. And he said since I was most afflicted in my scalp, which is near enough to my brain, there was a small but real risk of meningitis and he handed me a prescription for Valtrex.
You want to take a look at the instructions and the potential side effects for that little wonder. Iv'e got a friend who spent years on dialysis, later received a kidney transplant, and I know exactly how horrible kidney damage can be. I took the prescription but second-guessed myself all the way.
My kidney patient friend? She got the vax available in the UK. First dose went fine. Second dose? Decreased kidney function; two weeks in hospital; discharged, collapsed 24 hrs. later; EMTs revived her 3 times before transporting her to the hospital; massive internal bleeding; lost the kidney; four months in hospital incl. needing a tracheotomy and being vented; back on dialysis after seven years of having gotten much of her life back. If they'd even just monitored her carefully after giving her the vax. They weren't much concerned about her blood tests showing steady decrease in function, just told her to keep scheduling them.
I do find it quite ironic that the first bullet point suggests you listen to your friends concerns and which side effects she are concerned about. Isn't this the one thing the CDC and NIH are not going about these COVID vaccines? It seems pretty clear to me that the CDC is not listening to their own advice. The only issue here is that the "concerned friend" is millions of Americans.
It's quite disheartening to see that so many people will just fall for anything that is slapped with a "fact check" and colorful infographs. Even if the information is bs as long as it looks pretty then people will fall for it every time.
Follow the science, not The Science™
I have no background in science, nor do I have more than about a year's worth of college credits earned at CUNY community colleges, and those earned nearly 50 years ago. But I can think, and I react badly to being told to trust without a really good reason to do so.
More than 45 years ago I returned home one day to find a nice little sample package of Rely Tampons hanging from my front doorknob, and examined it with interest. Super hyper magically absorbent! Filled with sponge material that wouldn't let one drop leak. And I thought, you know, that maybe it's not all that healthy to keep all that soggy mass inside for a few too many hours. It's not all that much of a burden to change a regular tampon regularly, and one can use extra protection if needed. So I threw the nice sample package away. Two years later...
A couple of years ago I developed a case of shingles. Woke up with a scalp itching and aching the hell out of me, and then I developed about an inch-square patch of blistering on my neck. I began hyper-dosing with my trusty Vitamin C, and the rash didn't spread further though the stabbing intermittent pains in my scalp and ear were kind of aggravating. Had I known how great back and body aspirin is for situations like this the story wouldn't continue. But after a week of those stabbing pains I was a bit worn out so went to an urgent care center, and the very nice physician's asst. wanted to prescribe an anti-viral, and I asked why I needed it since I was pretty much rounding the bend. And he said since I was most afflicted in my scalp, which is near enough to my brain, there was a small but real risk of meningitis and he handed me a prescription for Valtrex.
You want to take a look at the instructions and the potential side effects for that little wonder. Iv'e got a friend who spent years on dialysis, later received a kidney transplant, and I know exactly how horrible kidney damage can be. I took the prescription but second-guessed myself all the way.
My kidney patient friend? She got the vax available in the UK. First dose went fine. Second dose? Decreased kidney function; two weeks in hospital; discharged, collapsed 24 hrs. later; EMTs revived her 3 times before transporting her to the hospital; massive internal bleeding; lost the kidney; four months in hospital incl. needing a tracheotomy and being vented; back on dialysis after seven years of having gotten much of her life back. If they'd even just monitored her carefully after giving her the vax. They weren't much concerned about her blood tests showing steady decrease in function, just told her to keep scheduling them.
Now I believe nothing they say. Nothing.