Covid 19 conspiracies dump

[Rev. Rye]

For the record, just looked up the number of side effects from COVID jabs from VAERS again, this time sorted by manufacturer.



As of March 13 (admittedly 9 days after the VAERS data is from), 328507974 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were given in the US.

Odds of a side effect worth noting: 1 in 988.
Odds of a severe side effect: 1 in 7203.


And for the record, I decided to compare that to the odds of getting in a car crash. I didn’t find stats for that directly, but I did find that esurance estimated 1 in 366 odds for getting in a car crash per 1000 miles. Multiply that by the average American driving 14,263 miles per year, I got odds of 3.897%. Just a bit less than 1 in 25 every year. Yearly odds of dying in a car crash? For 2020, it was 1 in 7782 (note: to access, click "data table", then "download table," and there should be an option to view it as a web page). Which is only 8% lower than the odds of getting a severe side effect from the Pfizer vaccine.

TL;DR: The odds of getting a severe side effect from the Pfizer vaccine (which may or may not actually be from the vaccine) are slightly higher than the odds of dying in a car crash in a given year.

And what are the odds of a healthy child dying of Omicron? Practically zero.

In the real world, deaths from COVID, even from children, have spiked since Omicron started to spread. And a more recent article about the problem.



And that's not even getting into the problem of children transmitting the disease to older and more vulnerable people, or the problem of long COVID still being a problem for children under omicron or that, for that matter, not only do we routinely vaccinate people for diseases that are far more likely to be deadly for older children (measles comes to mind), quite a few jurisdictions (including the one I live in) have made said vaccinations mandatory and people didn't raise that much of a stink about the idea until 2020.