You're just being presumptive, overreaching in conclusions and overconfident in your narrative. I've seen two studies linked recently about long COVID. Neither included vaccination as a test variable. Since these two studies were recent and newsworthy enough to link on HN I'm assuming your "There is no data supporting widespread negative effects from the vaccine after a year." boils down to there is no data because we didn't look for it. There would be no data of asymptomatic long term effects of COVID if we didn't search for that either.
I have 0 problems with people at risk of serious COVID getting vaccinated, in fact I convinced my grandparents to do it. I don't really see what it buys me as a healthy 30 something year-old with no preexisting conditions, other than likely being a day out after the shot.
>We could have reached herd immunity with the vaccine by now, and variants would no longer be of concern.
How does that compute ? I thought nobody actually believed zero COVID is possible ?
Bigfoot is out there, and UFOs. Sorry, I shouldn't mock you. But seriously, epidemiologists, you know--Scientists--without political agendas study this problem very carefully...and do not see any widespread effects from the vaccine after a year. It's not like they forgot to look for it. If you seriously believe they are just being willfully blind to it then you're going to be off a long chain of other rationalizations that are just more hallmarks of the fact that you didn't reason yourself to where you are. But I already suspected that so I am not trying to convince you as much as tag your misinformation for passers by.
> I don't really see what it buys me
This is really the crux of matter. You only think about yourself. One, you are are far higher risk of Bad Things (tm) straight-up getting COVID, especially with Delta and Lambda coming. Again, the data is absolutely clear on that. Two, other people exist. Data shows you are more likely to be infected and more likely to infect others if you are unvaccinated. You help keep this thing festering by offering yourself up as a host. And no, vaccinated people are not doing the same. They are actually taking precautions that protect themselves and others. You're just being selfish and obstinate, and it isn't even principled, you are just worried about vague side-effects that only affect you. Worse, you put vaccinated people at risk too. If you are infected, and also being in contact with vaccinated people, you are just offering evolution more dice rolls to create a more infectious variant that can evade vaccine-induced immunity and infect the people around you. In fact, you tempt evolution to do so, because it's then a selective pressure. It's like giving your crazy neighbor who steals people's bullets and shoots them into the air randomly free ammunition by putting it on the porch with a bow on it instead of locking your shit up in your house. It's infuriatingly irresponsible.
> I thought nobody is actually believed zero COVID is possible?
I said herd immunity, not zero COVID.
herd im·mu·ni·ty, noun:
resistance to the spread of an infectious disease within a population that is based on pre-existing immunity of a high proportion of individuals as a result of previous infection or vaccination. "the level of vaccination needed to achieve herd immunity varies by disease but ranges from 83 to 94 percent"
Zero COVID was a possibility when infections were low. But back then, people were saying it only affected a few people and didn't even want to wear masks. Irresponsible people brought this upon us and keep it going with continued irresponsibility.
I think you're irresponsible and I'm saying it you explicitly.
>you know--Scientists--without political agendas study this problem very carefully...and do not see any widespread effects from the vaccine after a year.
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This entire thread is me asking if there's some studies that compare long COVID sideffects with groups based on vaccination. Instead of linking these, since you're already certain (and I would very much be convinced if you can show me) you are saying "believe science" ? And I'm unscientific ?
By all means enlighten me and I'll edit my top post with links to stop spreading misinformation.
So you're just googling post hoc and haven't actually looked into it. How scientific.
This study [1] is what got me interested, they claim gray matter loss compares to control group even in asymptomatic cases but they excluded vaccinated people from what I can tell. I want to see this level of data for the groups I mention and then we have a really good insight. And this data should be possible to get.
Your links are articles referencing self-reports and doctors guesses...
> So you're just googling post hoc and haven't actually looked into it. How scientific.
Actually, I've seen dozens of articles fly by and they all said pretty much the same thing, because the data is so clear that no one really disputes it. I just googled it because it's stupidly easy to find. Nothing's going to convince you anyway, so there's no point in putting in more effort at this point.
I have 0 problems with people at risk of serious COVID getting vaccinated, in fact I convinced my grandparents to do it. I don't really see what it buys me as a healthy 30 something year-old with no preexisting conditions, other than likely being a day out after the shot.
>We could have reached herd immunity with the vaccine by now, and variants would no longer be of concern.
How does that compute ? I thought nobody actually believed zero COVID is possible ?