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As someone who actually tested a vaccine in phase 3 voluntarily, please do not put yourself in the same group as me.

You got a jab hundreds of millions of people got. I got a jab a few thousand of people got.

I got to install an app and log all sorts of things on it every couple days. You didn’t have to do that.

You received a QR code to allow you to participate in a variety of things. I didn’t, and had to even-more-experimentally mix and match my untested vaccine with an EMA approved one so I could get a Covid safe ticket.

I’m fine by the way.

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Exactly, why didn’t we all get that?

All I got was, “sit here for 15 minutes”.

I don't remember that for any other vaccine I’ve ever taken.

I don't understand what else you were expecting.

The 15 min wait is because some known side effects manifest within those 15 minutes. Everything else is either minor, or extremely rare, or both. The US has the VAERS system if you want more on side effect reporting, but your doctor is supposed to do the work.

Either way, the vaccine was tested. That it didn't go through a 10 year trial period is because we didn't have the time. Will you suddenly explode or combust in 11 years? I can't prove you won't. I would happily put money on the negative though, care to wager?

That's mostly to watch for allergic reactions, which if you get you need medical assistance asap. Nothing to do with the covid vaccine itself.

So the vaccine that they inject into you, that would cause an allergic reaction, has nothing to do with the allergic reaction?

Well that's with all vaccines. I meant it's not specific to the covid one

That wait is for most or all vaccines, including pre COVID times. Any parent will be familiar with that instruction to wait after the shot.

And you're being deliberately obtuse. Like most medicines, vaccine injections have other ingredients like preservatives, the carrier fluid, etc. People can be allergic to the other ingredients but not the mRNA/TDAP/Influenza/whatever vaccine.

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