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Jen X's avatar

How do you prove to me that the vaccine made my symptoms weaker? By saying it likely did in other people who got a vaccine and only mild illness. That's ok, but it's still moving the goalposts from all the definitive statements they made.

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Ibbiat's avatar

We took data from millions of people in aggregate and calculated that the vaccines made symptoms much weaker for the mathematical-average person.

But yeah, sure, maybe you're the special unique snowflake that the vaccine didn't help.

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Jen X's avatar

I don't know if it did or not - I had 2 + booster and I've been sick since 2020, even with strongly suspicious symptoms, but no positive tests (and I tested a lot). I did skip my period for 6 months after the second booster, so I believe there's something to that and the joint aches because man oh man did I get those.

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Ibbiat's avatar

And if you had all your health problems in 2019, you would have found something else to blame them on. It's natural to try to determine causality via correlation, but, ugh.

Hundreds of millions of people have received these mRNA vaccines and they're fine. Maybe the vaccine caused your problems, but it seems unlikely.

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Jen X's avatar

Uh, no. Sorry but I can't accept that level of coincidence - sudden onset with the shot and happening three separate times. You might be able to though!

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Ibbiat's avatar

I guess I'm not really following what you're writing.

You said you've been sick since 2020. Does that mean you've been sick for almost 3 years straight? Or that you've been sick once? Or occasionally? Or after every time you get a vaccine shot? Or what?

You said you skipped your period for 6 months after the second booster. So that's once, not "three separate times."

So now we're at "joint aches" which is what you're presumably talking about re: sudden onset after every shot. (I guess?) Joint pain is one of the more common known side-effects of the Covid vaccines, so, yeah, sure. I have no trouble believing that you had some joint pain due to being vaccinated.

Does that mean the vaccine won't help you if you catch Covid? Those two things are not logically connected. So I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

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