Out the gate let me just get it on the record that I'm not an "anti-vaxxer", I'm not a "conspiracy theorist", and I don't think Bill Gates is trying to microchip me, or that they're using 5G to activate magnetic metals in the vaccines to kill people.
I loathe being called a "refusenik" or being told I'm "selfish", a "covidiot" or that I deserve to die for declining to have the vaccine. I also take issue with people saying those, such as myself, who decline the vaccine should be refused medical care in the future; this is especially poignant when it's stated aggressively by people who smoke, drink excessively, take drugs, are overweight etc, who themselves are putting undue strain on the NHS with self-inflicted medical issues like cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
I admittedly find it nefarious that Governments are literally bribing people, getting endorsements from celebrities, and trying to strong arm and shame people into getting vaccinated, especially when the vaccine is only authorised under emergency use and is not actually approved in the typical manner. Add that to the fact the manufacturers of the vaccines have been acquitted of any liability, and the Government compensation scheme offers a paltry £125,000 payoff which is notoriously difficult to claim even if you do develop a provable debilitating condition as a result. Even the track record for some of these vaccine manufacturers gives me no reason to trust the safety of their products.
Now with that out of the way, let's look at the logical reasoning behind my informed non-consent.
Covid Risk Profile
There is a website called QCovid which is a risk calculator maintained by the University of Oxford. The calculator assesses your profile based on your demographic and health history, and gives you your risk relative to Covid. Here is mine:
Risk of Covid Associated Death: 0.0006%
Risk of Covid Associated Hospitalisation: 0.0189%
I like those odds, a 1/166,667 likelihood of death. Even FullFact themselves stipulate that based on data from 2019 you have a 1/35,720 likelihood of dying in a road accident. I am 5x more likely to die in a road accident than from Covid.
Covid has been around for some time now, and there is a known treatment course for recovery. Over the past 16 months or so, healthcare professionals have learned what does, and what does not work for treating the virus. I am not afraid of Covid. I see it as any other virus that I could encounter; if I catch it, my immune system will likely fight it off (as it has for every single person I know who has caught it), or I'll end up in hospital with healthcare professionals who know how to treat it.
Vaccine Efficacy
Do you know the difference between Relative Risk Reduction, and Absolute Risk Reduction? My risk of being hospitalised or dying from Covid is already minimal due to my demographic and overall health. The additional protection of the vaccine against catching Covid amounts to between 0.8%-1.3% extra protection. The advertised efficacy is not ARR; they are massaging figures to imply the vaccine is necessary. When your risk is already below 1%, reducing it by 0.8% becomes negligible.
A peer-reviewed paper in The Lancet (a reputable source) states that the absolute risk reduction of catching Covid after the vaccines is:
- Pfizer 0.8%
- J&J 1.2%
- Moderna 1.2%
- AstraZeneca 1.3%
We live in the age of data where we can see transparently that which previously we could not. There is substantial documentation of adverse events relating to the vaccines, even outside of the commentary and assessments of the data which are open to conjecture and exaggeration.
Additionally I have anecdotal evidence that I have witnessed first hand of side effects from the vaccines. These range from a friend telling me they thought they were going to die after almost crashing their car when their eyes started rolling, they experienced nausea, vertigo and vomiting, whilst driving on a motorway; a friend developing shingles; a friend developing blood clots on their brain requiring surgery; and a friend's cousin developing Guillian-Barre Syndrome.
People point toward the ADR reports only to identify the low death toll relative to the amount of vaccines deployed. That is fair enough, however the ADR events also include strokes, blindness, paralysis and a host of other nasty conditions that although not "death" still would mean a complete loss of quality of life. I would sooner take my risks with being treated for Covid with a known treatment path, than becoming blind or paralysed with no recourse.
Long Term Vaccine Risks
There is no long term safety data. There isn't. Quit saying there is. I have heard many arguments that attempt to claim to the contrary, however they all fold under scrutiny. Vaccines take 10-15 years to produce; this is because they need to test them against the large range of demographics, existing health issues, other treatments and medications being used, and various other things such as puberty, pregnancy, menopause etc.
Ironically the allusion to the fact that mRNA has been studied for decades actually further hurts the pro-vaccine argument, since the reason it hasn't been used until now is due to the toxicity of cationic lipids and the fact it's never been stabilised for use in the human body without unavoidable risks to long term health. Cationic lipids have also categorically been linked to liver damage.
There are legitimate concerns about ADE/Pathogenic Priming and ERD caused by the vaccines which may cause autoimmune issues with Covid down the line. There is concern that the vaccines could be linked to the onset of dementia, Prions Disease a.k.a. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or ALS a.k.a. Lou Gehrig’s Disease. There are papers investigating how the nanolipids used in the mRNA vaccines may lead to cell apoptosis and cancer. There are causal links being investigated into the Covid vaccines and fertility issues. These are issues that progress slowly and would not become apparent within a few months of testing.
Covid Passports
Absolutely abhorrent idea given that Covid has already been proven to be forward transmissable inspite of the vaccine. Regardless of the benefit of the vaccines in reducing severity of symptoms, since the vaccine does not prevent transmission, restricting people who have not been vaccinated from entry to venues/events makes no logical sense. People who have been vaccinated could just as easily carry the virus into the venue/event and forward transmit it onto other vaccinated people. Therefore the relevance of vaccination status for protecting others is non existent..
The hamstringing of international travel using Covid Passports as a solution is completely farcical given that vaccinated people can still catch/transmit the virus. Moreover, internationally there is the additional risk of contracting a variant that the current vaccines do not protect against. The traffic light system imposed in the UK stinks more of a ploy to prevent international travel for the benefit of climate change goals.
Risk/Reward Assessment
Quite simply, given the above facts and data, I deduce that the risk to myself from the vaccine is not worth the reward of "a bit of extra protection" in the event that I contract Covid and develop a symptomatic reaction.
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