I hate to weigh in here, but nothing is "perfectly safe"! This kind of absolute language seems to create distrust when people discover it's not quite true.

At this stage, the safety is fairly quantifiable, too: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/health-topics/immuniza... has a weekly adverse effects report which breaks down myocarditis/pericarditis by sex and age, per million population (the most common dangerous side effect for mRNA vaccines).

I see this a lot and it's very strange to see super smart people such as yourself conflate <number of people> with <time>. We cannot observe long-term effects through number of people.

>Imagine to oppose a perfectly safe vaccine that has been administered 6 BILLION times all around the world and that has a proven efficacy of at least one order of magnitude against delta variant and to push for a horse dewormer (that bear in mind it’s perfectly effective for what is used for.. killing parasites, not viruses)

Who here is opposing vaccines? You've created quite the strawman in your head.

>I think it’s because a lot of the HN demographic has quite a big overlap with the people that use social networks where all this bullshit originates and it is amplified and it spreads.

In other words Ivermectin is a proxy issue in the culture war. Hence why it's so polarizing and people are quick to regress from critical thinking to group think narratives.