[helsinki8]

This is all misinformation.

The vaccine significantly reduced severity of infection, likelihood to become infected at all, and likelihood of transmitting there infection.

The side effects impacting periods were incredibly rare, mild and fully disclosed.

Children's test scores are still substantially lower now than pre-covid, likely some of that is due to brain damage from the covid virus (remember that the "brain fog" was a common symptom for weeks or months, sometimes longer) and many children died or developed serious health issues like diabetes from the virus.

But needles are scary, so some people will claim anything to justify their aversion rather than admit they have a phobia of injections.

[Izkata]

> The vaccine significantly reduced severity of infection, likelihood to become infected at all, and likelihood of transmitting there infection.

The first was what the clinical trials tested for, the second and third were hopes that we never had confirmation of. And with how much the waves continued to spike everywhere afterwards, those two seem to have been false - that the mRNA vaccines only suppressed symptoms without reducing infection/transmission.

[noworriesnate]

A female close to me experienced side effects from shedding of the vaccine. She was not initially an “anti-vaxxer.” These symptoms were absolutely not disclosed ahead of time.

I’ve seen with my own eyes people who tried to shame me for not getting the vaccine come down with COVID over and over again.

When you tell someone that their personal experience and that of their trusted friends is misinformation, you lose all credibility.

[ChocolateGod]

> A female close to me experienced side effects from shedding of the vaccine

There are always risks with vaccines, given you are trying to introduce an immune response to a contagion and it's no secret that the immune system can get it wrong (e.g. overreacting, attacking own tissue). It's about balancing the benefits of the vaccine with the risks. You can get the same consequences from having the disease itself, as well as the risks the disease will kill you.

The COVID shot was deployed in a little amount of time, so it's understandable that there are more notable cases of side effects, because it was deployed over months, not decades as is the case with other vaccines.

[dekhn]

Think of it from this perspective: you made a claim but you don't have data to support it. It's easy for individuals to be prone to false conclusions because we often conflate weak correlations as causation, when often times, randomness is a better explanation, or "not sure if causation".