Brendan Burgess
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“In the history of immunisation, there has never been issues of long-term side effects of any licensed vaccine that have been manufactured and used according to the required regulatory standards.”
Just like most of her articles it's an opinion piece without substance. It required no research, no expert knowledge, no interviews, no distillation of the facts. When the pubs were closed we were spared the narrow and often sexist ramblings of the bar stool expert. I find O'Connell a female version of that with her lazy sexism and emotive playing to the gallery.I suspect that Thompson's article may encourage a few people who have not considered vaccination to now consider it whereas O'Connell's article will just get people's backs up.
However the GSK H1N1 vaccine did in very limited cases did have cases of side effects, but that turned out to be an adjuvant, or gunk as I call it, Stamford University in 2018 found the vaccine itself to be fine but the global echo chamber successfully got it banned. Of course science took 8 years to declare it safe .I often wonder if they fixed the adjuvant earlier would Covid-19 ever had evolved?This also caught my eye;
And yet for decades the MMR is administered to the vast majority both here and globally? My wife is a scientist and works in the vaccine area, we had doubts about all the vaccines we allowed our children get vaccinated, and we lost a child of 8 months old.A lot of people who won't get vacine is because they feel pushed into it. What other big decision for your child can only one parent decide fate .
And yet if a vaccine for cancer was developed and rolled out tomorrow most would be in the queue for it.An excellent article here:
Why we’re not getting the Covid-19 vaccine: Irish Times readers share their reasons
We asked people who aren’t getting vaccinated to tell us why. Here’s what they saidwww.irishtimes.com
For example:
Fears of side effects, especially relating to fertility, unborn babies and children
Some write about the potential of the vaccine to affect male and female fertility, its impact on the menstrual cycle, the risks during pregnancy and potential risk to babies born to vaccinated women.
Dr Eoghan de Barra replies: “Due to the unique way that mRNA vaccines in particular work, the vaccine does not get into reproductive organs. The m (messenger) RNA is not retained in our bodies and does not change our DNA. There is no evidence that they impact on fertility or the menstrual cycle. The risk of Covid-19 infection in pregnancy are now well established and a daily reality. Sars-CoV-2 has been found in the placenta and shown to cause stillbirth. Vaccination is part of reducing the risk to mother and baby.
“There is no long-term data yet on babies born to vaccinated mothers but mRNA does not cross the placenta and thus there is no biological plausibility that damage might occur.”
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