duffer
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I find that "Drink your Kool-Aid" and phrases like "sheeple" are a handy indicator of someone who might be a bit too lazy to do their own research. It's not an honest conversation if people are just making stuff up...
So... any footballers who are seeing their colleagues 'drop on the pitch' should try reading this, or any of the other fact checking sites that completely debunk this dangerous myth.
Does Video Show Athletes Fainting Due to COVID-19 Vaccine?
A series of fear-mongering videos were circulated on social media with unsubstantiated and false claims.
J&J, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, isn't used in the UK, so that's an absolute redundancy in the argument about UK footballers. They've literally got nothing to worry about from J & J. However, if you're an American, the latest CDC statement on it is this...
" Today, CDC is endorsing updated recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the prevention of COVID-19, expressing a clinical preference for individuals to receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine over Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.
ACIP’s unanimous recommendation followed a robust discussion of the latest evidence on vaccine effectiveness, vaccine safety and rare adverse events, and consideration of the U.S. vaccine supply. The U.S. supply of mRNA vaccines is abundant – with nearly 100 million doses in the field for immediate use. "
Given the current state of the pandemic both here and around the world, the ACIP reaffirmed that receiving any vaccine is better than being unvaccinated."
VAERS is, once again, American. I can't find any evidence about reports "going through the ceiling", though of course two entire seconds of critical thinking would suggest that if vaccinated numbers are rising, then reports of side-effects will similarly rise.
Anti-vaxxers (in the US) have tried to scare people away from vaccinations previously using VAERS figures, and have been shown to be completely nonsensical...
Misinterpretation of VAERS database leads Tucker Carlson to wrongly suggests that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to higher mortality on Fox News
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigated the deaths that occurred among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine and found that the vaccines didn’t cause these deaths. The VAERS database helps health authorities to monitor the safety of vaccines. However, it is...
And here's some stuff about long-term effects from vaccination, which again of course, are far, far less likely than having long-term effects from catching Covid in the first place.
How Do We Know the COVID-19 Vaccine Won’t Have Long-Term Side Effects?
One of the reasons some people haven’t signed up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is that they’re worried there might be unknown side effects that will show up months or years later. Although it’s true there are still a lot of things we’re learning about the vaccines — like how effective they are...
Honest conversations are something that might go a long way to help footballers (and many others) who are obviously making decisions based on incomplete and often completely misleading information.
The evidence is fairly unambiguous, the problem is with people not bothering to look for it.