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Originally Posted by Dude111
Well when they first came out........
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You were wrong then and you are wrong now.
We have 4 years of data from population scale use of covid vaccines in countries all over the world. They were safe, they are safe. Even the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is safe by any ordinary use of the word. The number of cases of blood clots associated with it is a minuscule fraction of the doses given. Ox/AZ is being withdrawn now because its underlying technology makes it more cumbersome to update for new variants of covid than the newer mRNA vaccine classes produced by Moderna and others. It’s a commercial decision.
We had the opportunity to stop a pandemic in its tracks in 2020 and 2021 by vaccinating everyone, regardless of their personal risk of serious symptoms, thereby giving the virus nowhere to go. Most people understood this and were happy to participate because they understood they were caught up in something bigger than themselves, in which they owed it to their neighbours to play their part. Sadly some people did not. You, apparently, were one of the ones who mulishly insisted on your personal freedoms whilst cheerfully ignoring the wider society within which your personal freedom is expressed. A pity.