Interesting and rather tragic.

The part about supressing the cause of death was especially gutwrenching. Silencing hurt people out of fear of encouraging nutters is a horrible thing to do.

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    Ridiculous. All vaccines can have side effects, of course there were going to be people who had adverse responses to the COVID vaccines. Disbelieving people about this is an absolute joke.

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      I agree, part of keeping trust in collective health measures is trusting people when they say they are hurt by them and trying to help.

      These people did a prosocial and sensible thing, they got hurt in freak accidents, they deserve respect and compassion.

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      The problem with global media is that every single outlier event gets hyped to such a degree that it appears to be a common occurrence.

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        bird flu just got like three people sick and everyone at my work talks about it

        Covid killed almost a thousand last week

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      Unfortunately it is hard to prove things like CFS (regardless of vaccines). If we believe all claims then some will rort the system. I have no opinion on how to deal with it.

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        How many actually will vs how many innocents you just abandon. Like how many people actually presented to doctors or hospital after getting vaxxed, missed work etc.

        I think this fear of other human beings behaving in ways you probably would never dream of, nor would you expect of almost everyone you know, is misguided.

        Society can afford a few mooches if it’s the price of helping the needy. We support an entire class of mooches with stuff like CGT discounting and that doesn’t help anyone.