"The only side effects I ever suffered is a sore arm and feeling ill for a day. The only regret I have is not having the jab sooner"
WHY I HAD THE COVID-19 VACCINE
I was struck down with COVID before being vaccinated, and LONG COVID made my life hell for 6 months. The vaccine would have reduced the risk of this. Coronavirus vaccines cut risk of long Covid, study finds - BBC News
Vaccines reduce the risk of infection and death
It baffles me how so many people think "not 100% effective = useless"
Coronavirus infections three times lower in double vaccinated people - REACT | Imperial News | Imperial College London
CDC COVID-19 Study Shows mRNA Vaccines Reduce Risk of Infection by 91 Percent for Fully Vaccinated People | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
COVID-19 by the numbers: The vaccinated continue to be protected (healthline.com)
The risk of dying from a Covid vaccine is lower than 1 in 31,000 - Full Fact
Antivaxxers cannot come up with a consistent argument among themselves. Here is a collection of the contradictory, crazy and just plain wrong claims I have heard about the COVID-19 jab.
They are called antivaxxers for a reason. People openly stated they weren't having the jab on social media long before it was even developed. Only to later claim they weren't having it for "safety reasons".
Some claim the vaccine is "experimental", while others argue that the pandemic and subsequent vaccine rollout were planned "years ago"?
If there were no vaccine and more people died of COVID, the same people would still be clinging to earlier conspiracy theories, such as "it's a plot to kill off old people".
Claiming that "animal testing was skipped" for the COVID-19 vaccine, while others claim that "animals died during testing"?
Animal testing skipped - Search / X (twitter.com) Animals died during testing - Search / X (twitter.com)
Claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine was "rushed", often making ridiculous comparisons to the time it took to develop the Polio vaccine when they obviously didn't have access to 2020 technology and communication.
Polio vaccine - Wikipedia
Not understanding that scientists built on decades of prior research on similar viruses, like SARS and MERS.
Never stating what a "proper" trial of the COVID-19 vaccine would look like.
Not understanding the concept of base rate fallacy, "i.e you are more likely to get the virus if vaccinated"
Base rate fallacy - Wikipedia
Never clearly defining "immune system overload".
‘Children’s immune systems are being overloaded with all these vaccines’ | Nursing in Practice
Claim that we are all going to drop dead in a couple of years from the COVID jab, while also claiming that there is no long-term data.
Global life expectancy was 72.6 in 2019, 70.9 during the pandemic and 73.3 in 2024. Around 5.55 billion people have had at least 1 dose of the COVID jab.
Our Editor’s End of the Year Missive - by Human Progress
Objections to the modern COVID jab are just recycled arguments from generations ago. Such as the ones against the smallpox jab.
COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago | Faculty of History (ox.ac.uk)
Conflicting claims about the purpose of the jab. It's a microchip tracking device, mind control device, depopulation plan, plot to get us hooked on boosters, money-making scam, or simply ineffective.
If the COVID vaccine is harmful, it would be reasonable to expect that it "harms" some groups of people more than others. Yet they are deliberately vague on this.
Claims people forgot about, such as "the jab makes people magnetic". COVID-19 vaccines do not make you magnetic - Full Fact
We rarely see believers in these rival theories attacking each other, such as the hardliners who oppose all vaccines, in conflict with those who claim to be only against the COVID-19 vaccine.
Claiming that the COVID jab is not a "real vaccine", but never stating the cutoff point for effectiveness before it is no longer a vaccine?
If there's a conspiracy behind the COVID-19 vaccine, the conspirators could have just lied to us and said it was a traditional vaccine instead of an mRNA vaccine. Since people are naturally more cautious of newer technology, it's a harder task to sell it to the general public.
Claiming they ONLY oppose mRNA vaccines but not campaigning for the use of non-mRNA vaccines?
The four types of COVID-19 vaccine – a snapshot | Healthcare IT News
Non-mRNA vaccines can be as good as Pfizer and Moderna in some scenarios : Goats and Soda : NPR
Someone dies after testing positive for COVID. It was never the virus that killed them, but if they died after having the vaccine, it was ALWAYS the jab that killed them.
Claiming facemasks were useless in 2020 but promoting them now to protect against vaccine shedding.
Claiming the spike protein in the virus is harmless, but the spike protein in the vaccine is harmful?
Having no problem with side effects from other medications.
Getting a COVID jab is safer than taking aspirin | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne (unimelb.edu.au)
Your immune system is not strong enough to handle a vaccine containing a few nanograms of fragmented DNA that over 60% of the world's population has had? But strong enough to handle a virus that constantly mutates?
Trusting "natural immunity" while also stating that it's pointless to have the COVID-19 vaccine because the virus mutates too quickly to keep up?
Claiming the COVID vaccine is "poison", but not explaining clearly the makeup of that poison and at what dose?
Using the "FDA has not approved the vaccine yet" argument. Then, not getting the vaccine when it was approved on August 23, 2021?
FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine | FDA a hint Moving the goalposts - RationalWiki
Calling the COVID-19 RNA vaccine "gene therapy", but never explaining which genes are modified, deleted or added?
IntegralAnswers on X: " If you believed mRNA vaccines were integrating into human DNA, here’s how you’d prove it. A thread for skeptics, scientists, and those serious about evidence.
If it were possible to alter DNA with a vaccine, it would have been used to treat multiple genetic diseases by now.
Myocarditis is not a significant issue after a COVID-19 infection, but it becomes a major concern after the vaccine, despite occurring at much lower rates.
Myocarditis after covid infection - NEW SCIENTIST
Rejecting the COVID-19 vaccine based on "unknown long-term side effects". But having no problems with consuming tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs, junk food, etc, at the same rates as the general population?
Have a problem with funding "Big Pharma" but having no problems funding the likes of big tobacco, big oil, South American drug cartels and companies that employ slave labour at the same rates as the general population.
Doctors spend a lot of time telling their patients to "lose weight", "stop smoking", "cut down on alcohol", etc. Yet according to many antivaxxers, they are also trying to deliberately kill or injure people with vaccines.
Claiming doctors are clueless about vaccines, but trusting them on other health issues.
"I trust my natural immunity" = I'm willing to catch a virus that could kill or give long-term side effects, so that my body has a better chance of fighting it if I catch it a second time.
Repeat COVID Infection Doubles the Risk of Death (webmd.com)
Never explaining clearly and precisely at what point a vaccine becomes "non-experimental". By the same reasoning, we should have withheld penicillin from the WW2 injured with sepsis for over a decade until the long-term safety studies were in.
It's mostly conservative Americans who seem to suffer high rates of adverse effects. Who just happen to be the same people who opposed masks, lockdown and promoted cures like horse dewormer. I have yet to meet someone who agreed with lockdowns but opposed the jab.
Widely conflicting figures about the mortality rate for the COVID-19 jab. If "millions died from the jab", where are they hiding all the bodies?
Only paying lip service to so-called "vaccine injuries". If I personally knew half a dozen people who were killed/ injured (as many of them claim), I'd be doing a lot more than complaining on Facebook and Twitter
It's only anti-vaxxers who always know a (friend of a friend) who had family members suffer badly as a result of the vaccine? Often referred to as anti-vaxxer proximity syndrome.
Demanding impossibly high standards for vaccine safety, such as decade-long studies. Yet when a new COVID variant appears, they instantly declare it to be no problem with zero evidence and accuse the media of scaremongering.
Demanding that politicians should have the COVID-19 vaccine first to prove it's safe. Only to later claim that they weren't getting the real vaccine or that the politicians were getting preferential treatment.
Claiming that "cancer diagnoses will be missed" as an argument against lockdown. Only later to claim that cancers are caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.
Claiming that the "elites" were getting "placebo COVID jabs" and are now blaming the jab for King Charles' cancer diagnosis?
"placebo jabs" until:2021-12-31 since:2021-01-01 - Search / X (twitter.com)
Claiming Cancer rates have risen "off the scale" following the vaccine rollout, but the rest of the world doesn't notice.
Cancer screening: the urgent shouldn’t crowd out the important | The King's Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
Forgetting that people "died suddenly" before 2020?
Go to Google, search for Teenager dies of cardiac arrest. Set date between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. Get tens of thousands of results.
Sudden cardiac arrest: up to five Australians under 35 die each week | Australia news | The Guardian
Not explaining the difference between "COVID-injured" and "vaccine-injured".
Never defining "turbo Cancer", organ, cell type, genetic markers, or form of spread. Cancer is one of the most studied diseases.
Blaming every celebrity death on the COVID-19 vaccine? Even the Queen (96 years old) and Taylor Hawkins (10 different drugs in his system). Making it difficult, if not impossible, for the small number of people who have genuinely suffered side effects to be taken seriously.
Anti-vaxxer blames COVID-19 vaccines for death of Queen Elizabeth II (skepticalraptor.com)
There's a "secret agenda" to kill people with a "bio weapon" or unleash an "experimental" vaccine on the population, then happily relay to you its success by a weekly update of excess deaths?
"They" are trying to kill us with vaccines while also providing defibrillators to keep people alive.
The authorities are trying to hide critical vaccine side effects and imply that they are almost completely safe. While also allowing vaccine inserts and VAERS.
What VAERS Is (And Isn’t) | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health (jhu.edu)
A thread on logical fallacies and thinking errors anti-vaxxers commit when using #VAERS
https://twitter.com/SkepticJonGuy/status/1658320428870553601
"Blood clots from the jab" are being exposed by undertakers and embalmers, but not surgeons. They are part of the cover-up, but "big coffin" is free to say what they like.
"Pure bloods" don't exhibit the same level of concern for other issues, such as UV exposure and pollutants that accumulate in the body over time, which can often cause DNA mutations.
Claiming that RNA (vaccine?) has been deliberately put into the food supply, which would make fears about getting the jab pointless.
RNA in food - Twitter Search / Twitter
Claiming to be "patriots" and have no problem "trusting the government" when it comes to sending our people off to war. But not trusting the government with a free shot that can keep you out of the hospital?
Claiming vaccination should be a "personal choice". Then, celebrating cases like Dr Michael Kirk Moore, who gave fake vaccines to people?
Utah doctor, others charged with running COVID vaccine scheme, issuing fake records and giving fake shots (ksltv.com)
Dr. Michael Kirk Moore - Twitter Search / Twitter
Claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine gives HIV false positives when the HIV infection rates have actually gone down?
HIV incidence per 1,000 individuals, by age, World
HIV false postitves - Search / X
Claiming that we were going to have "endless boosters"? I have not been directly offered one in years despite being a "repeat customer".
Endless boosters - Twitter Search / Twitter
NHS England » NHS issues final call to come forward for COVID booster
Still promoting the Tiffany Dover myth, years after she received her vaccine?
"Tiffany Dover" until:2023-05-31 since:2023-01-01 - Twitter Search / Twitter
PolitiFact | Tiffany Dover is alive, despite persistent claims to the contrary
Claiming that there was going to be a worldwide compulsory vaccine passport scheme when the UK parliament voted against it by 369 votes to 126?
Roll of honour: every MP who voted against vaccine passports | The Spectator
COVID-19: Vaccine passports scrapped in bars and restaurants - BBC News
Thinking that 1940s smoking ads or the Thalidomide scandal are somehow relevant to 2020s medical science?
Is This a Real Vintage Ad Featuring a Pregnant Woman Smoking? | Snopes.com
"Science Was Wrong Before!" - Debunking Denialism
Claiming that there's going to be a Nuremberg 2.0
"Nuremburg2.0" until:2021-12-31 since:2021-01-01 - Twitter Search / X
Learning from five bad arguments against mandatory vaccination - PMC (nih.gov)
Claiming that the blood of unvaccinated people will be the "new bitcoin" that will make antivaxxers super-rich.