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> Vaccines causing long-term damages more than Covid while Covid causes long-covid with long term damages 1 in 10 times and vaccines cause long-term damages 1 in 100,000 times.

Do you know what long term is? We literally don't have enough data to determine which way this will go. According to the NIH they're collecting long term data that will end after 3 years of study[0]. I'm old enough to remember that COVID-19 started around November of 2019. The current date is June of 2022, if my math hasn't failed me, we still haven't hit 3 years of having COVID. Further, the vaccine came out in December of 2020. It's stupid to try and say that the vaccine is perfectly safe long term, the same way it's stupid to say it's dangerous long term. We literally just do not know.

And from that study you listed on trans folks regretting transition:

> Thirty-nine percent (39%) of respondents experienced serious psychological distress in the month before completing the survey (based on the Kessler 6 Psychological Distress Scale), compared with only 5% of the U.S. population.

> Forty percent (40%) have attempted suicide in their lifetime, nearly nine times the rate in the U.S. population (4.6%).

> Seven percent (7%) attempted suicide in the past year—nearly twelve times the rate in the U.S. population (0.6%).

So apparently trans folks are only 9-12x more likely to attempt to commit suicide, but we're still being told that there's absolutely no harmful physiological effects. After all they don't regret it.

[0]: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/clinical-trials/covid-19-recon-19-...

parent _gabe_ 4 years ago

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