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If you even want to cite VAERS as a reliable source of _anything_ it means you don't even know the first thing about the topic.

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It is not reliable, for sure, and we don't know by what factor or which way the error goes.

It might show ten times the real number, or half the real number. That would be either 1'700 people or 34'000 dead in the US alone.

I wouldn't discount the lower limit either, 1'700 is still a lot and far from a small risk.

You've essentially admitted it's an unreliable source that can be complete fiction for all we know. It's not validated by any medical institution, no one has jumped to defend it, none of the claims can be independently validated. I might as well just take my pandemic advice from a radio talk show host.

You're just robotically repeating fact-check talking points. Lots of young healthy people have been killed by the Covid vaccine and, for all its problems, the reason they're waving gigantic "DO NOT LOOK HERE" signs around VAERS is to give people like you an excuse to keep your heads firmly planted in the sand.

> Lots of young healthy people have been killed by the Covid vaccine

Cite your sources, you have a wildly outlandish claim that is beyond the expert consensus on the topic.

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