lack of self awareness wrote:
Also, any “long-term adverse effects” that are supposed to show up from this vaccine would have materialized a long time ago. Claims that vaccinated people will die in a few years or have crippling side effects have no basis in reality whatsoever; I don’t think people actually understand how vaccines work if they’re making such claims.
Long-term adverse effects, by definition, don't show up until a "long term" is observed. That could be two years or so.
As I type this, only the original clinical trial Phase I subjects have had the vaccine for more than one year. That's 36 subjects for Pfizer and 45 for Moderna. And we don't know the status of those subjects.
In December, one-year data will exist for 18,650 Pfizer subjects and a slightly smaller number for Moderna. And let me stress this. We will not have this data. Only Pfizer and Moderna have this data. They have no obligation, as I understand it, to report any more interim data until the clinical trial is over, which if I recall correctly, is January 2023.
Adding to my personal concern, the discussion of short-term effects has been fiercely suppressed. Medical personnel have been fired. Conversations online have been banned. YouTube discussion groups have been banned. Also, VAERS is a joke. I'm told that it's a hassle to submit the data. Medical personnel who have attempted to report their data have been told not to do so by their hospital superiors. As I have pointed out in every thread, VAERS is required to report all deaths regardless of cause and approximately 200,000 age 70 plus vaccinated seniors have died from all causes. The requirement is to report all deaths and let VAERS sort them out. It is not being done.
Finally, you cannot extrapolate long-term effects from short-term effects. It's just a guess... an informed guess, an educated guess, a best guess... but it is still a guess.
In my case, I have decided to wait and see until April 2022. By then, over 100 million people in the US will have been vaccinated for at least one year. At that point, long-term effects should begin to surface in enough people that it will be difficult to suppress the information.
Now... I'm not saying that there will be adverse effects. I am saying that we DO NOT know if there will be any adverse long-term effects until we can observe subjects for the long term.