Not to be that guy but 50,000 people is still a lot. Percentages are great because if they’re very low we tend to like that but it doesn’t change the absolute number.

The real comparison isn’t how safe the vaccine is, its how safe the vaccine is compared to getting the disease it’s preventing. Every medical product is not about zero harm or low harm, it’s about harm reduction. If medical therapies didn’t cause harm, we wouldn’t have chemo treatments and we would be much worse at treating cancers.

I've had people tell me and my friends similar things to this. Some people just aren't good with numbers and can't put them into perspective with other numbers and arrive at scary conclusions with no further context. Canada has 40+ million people and side effects can include trivial things such as feeling tired or having a sore arm. On a similar note, 2 of the COVID vaccines were mRNA based and some people were scaremongering about how the vaccines must somehow alter your DNA because both "mRNA" and "DNA" sound vaguely similar.

Better hope he doesn’t add bleach to vaccine

My life has improved so much since I embraced a so called 'evil,' and 'destructive' brain worm. Libs preach unity, but can't understand the power of many minds united into one. Sad!

Huh, that's a fun thought. If the bird flu turns into a pandemic (there's a prediction market that gives 16% for it, which is pants-shittingly terrifyingly high), we'll get to see how the Trump administration deals with one. And that... can go various ways.

On one hand, there's tons of anti-vaxxers in the Trump voting base and presumably this will affect the government, which is concerning. But on the other hand, one of the biggest problems in the COVID handling was when FDA stopped people from using already-created vaccines for idiotic bureaucracy considerations while people were literally dying by the million. That's the sort of thing that could go a lot better with just one presidential decision speeding it up, and there's a bunch of new people with power in the government now, like Elon Musk. Muskrat is a horrible person and kind of insane in some ways, but not stupid and I think he'd notice and act upon an opportunity like that. So I'm not totally pessimistic about how a new pandemic would go, either.

You don't get it. They are part of the conspiracy. Same as all the flight personnel with chemtrails. Everything is a big conspiracy, except that Facebook post made by some anonymous account, that's real.

Those people often have children who's only failure is to be born in such a family. Saying that the problem is going to solve itself is rather unempathic and will do quite some harm the said children of such people. (Just saying)

I was told I'd be dead in 5 years because of the covid Vax. So like... Nice talking to you all. This is my year.

Or remind people of the horrible specter that polio was, and the shadow it cast over society at the time. People lived in constant dread of catching something that could leave them physically ruined, and even wheelchair bound for the rest of their lives back then.

Covid, in its early strains, had the potential to leave you hospitalized and drowning in your own lungs for weeks as it ran its course. Granted, that's not polio levels of bad... But that's still weeks of hell, and several more years of hospital billing hell that I would like to avoid.

Weighing those outcomes, I opted for early access to the vaccine. Even though it was more to minimize the risk of an expensive hospital stay.

i do all of that and still get my vaccines. in a few years my immune system will be so powerful that nothing will be able to kill me