[jpxw]

I don’t know a single person who was hospitalised from the vaccine, and almost every adult I know has got it.

Conversely, several people I know were hospitalised from COVID, one of whom was killed.

Anecdotal, of course, but in the absence of better data, I’d be interested in other peoples’ experiences.

I’ll also note that in my country someone dying of the vaccine is a news-making story. Someone dying of COVID isn’t, because, sadly, it wouldn’t be “new” at all.

[notanzaiiswear]

I know one person who died from Covid, but he was a very unlikely case (in his thirties, and there were so far only 255 deaths in his age group in my country of 80 million people - he also was a news story), one who was hospitalized but seems to be fine now, and one who had a thrombosis from the vaccination (not life threatening it seems).

Another person I know was close to checking into the hospital for fear of heart issues after the vaccination. But it seems to have passed - except a few weeks later he now has a pacemaker, but officially not related to the vaccination (I don't know, not saying it is).

I have no doubt that for certain people the vaccine is better. But why do the stories never account for individual risk, dependent on age and co-morbidities?

Edit: changed 171 to 255, as 171 was just the male deaths in his age group. 255 is men+women.