Yes, of course, because nothing else different and new was circulating through the population at the time.
Do people like you all just start with a quasi-religious belief that Covid itself must be harmless? I understand being concerned about the possibility of vaccine side effects, but the constant insistence that a novel respiratory virus is safe strain credulity.
I do not consider covid to be harmless. Many died, including my own family members. We are talking about diabetes among children. Children were hardly impacted by covid. But many did take the vaccine. Food for thought.
No, I specifically indicated that I was sympathetic to concerns that a rushed vaccine might have unexpected side effects; I simply did not agree with your belief that the vaccine was the only major change during the time period we're discussing.
> Nothing to see here, right? You will not even consider the possibility? Not even a 1% probability?
This is nothing but an emotionally-driven continuation of the previous claim. Of course I'm willing to consider that the vaccine has serious side effects -- show me the data, and show me it in full context (meaning we also consider the vaccine's impact on the effects of Covid infection).
> Note I said nothing about religion, so not sure why you bring that up here when speaking of the probabilities of potential cause, but I believe your stand requires significant faith.
"Quasi-religious" because the assumption that Covid couldn't have caused this outcome is invented from whole cloth.
> I do not consider covid to be harmless. Many died, including my own family members. We are talking about diabetes among children. Children were hardly impacted by covid. But many did take the vaccine. Food for thought.
So at last we've reached the standard conspiracy theorist endpoint: "I'm just asking questions!" And instead of providing an ounce of data to support your argument, you've -- predictably -- provided a pound of wild accusations and obfuscation.
Biggest take away from me from the pandemic was how powerful normalcy bias is.
That is safe (-ish).
It's ibuprofen that's harmful taken chronically. Tylenol just kills you if you overdose.
The reason it says not to take it for that long on the bottle is that if you need it, there's probably something badly wrong with you.