SocraticGadfly: Coronavirus week 124: Once more unto the vaccine-difference breech

October 20, 2022

Coronavirus week 124: Once more unto the vaccine-difference breech

Yes, I am aware of why the FDA et al put pause on the J and J vax. Were the very occasionally fatal clotting side effects that much more serious than the very occasional cardiomyopathy side effects from the mRNA vax?

I fault everybody from the CDC on down for not giving a straight layout of fatality rate per 1 million doses (doses, not people, since mRNA in non-booster form is a two-dose shot), of fatality rates of mRNA vaxxes versus others.

And, why aren't people like Walker Bragman and Your Local Epidemiologist raising this issue rather than, in a riff on #VoteBlueNoMatterWho, telling people to #GetBoosteredNoMatterWhat even though, per Paul Offit, the mRNA bivalent booster isn't a deal if you're under 50 and ergo, per risk of side effects, since cardiomyopathy often hits in the young, is therefore contraindicated?

Answer: Whether they admit it or not, or even recognize it or not, they're tribalists.

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