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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by enragedcacti on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:49PM (#38281444)
> Not sure how we fell into this erroneous belief that we need tell others that they shouldn't or should be vaccinated.

If you'd like the answer, the belief originally stems from watching hundreds of millions of people die of smallpox

https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/timeline-of-vaccination-m...

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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by kiltedpanda on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:20PM (#38281894)
The difference is that the smallpox vaccine is close to providing sterilizing immunity, unlike the Covid 'vaccines'. In fact there is a lot of data to suggest now that the number of vaccine doses a person has is correlated to an increased risk of catching covid (and therefore spreading it).

Statistics agencies have to massage the raw data very significantly in their models to make it look like vaccinated individuals catch covid less often than unvaccinated people.

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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by HideousKojima on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:14PM (#38282590)
If anything, vaccine is a misnomer for the Covid shots. Maybe prophylactic is more accurate?
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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by ben_w on Thursday November 16, 2023 @12:59PM (#38293001)
Vaccines can be prophylactic, or therapeutic (to fight a disease that has already occurred, which also includes some cancer treatments). Only some vaccines offer full sterilising immunity.
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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by moose44 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:28PM (#38281985)
Thank you for sharing.
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