@C0pperhead Even though there are conspiracy threads for such topics, I'll reply here bc it's where you posted.
No doubt about there being known problems with some (mostly older) vaccines and with the covid vaccines in particular, (I suffer with pretty bad chemo/radiation induced neuropathy and noticed no increase in symptoms after covid vac & booster) but it's no surprise bc of them being rushed and untested in trials b4 their release. Yes there is minuscule amounts of a couple nasty ingredients like aluminum, formaldehyde and even a safe form of mercury, but it would take bucket loads of them to harm you.
Water is lethal at high doses.
Salt is lethal at high doses.
Botulinum toxin is the most dangerous substance known — and people inject it as Botox.
The compounds historically used in vaccines sound scary, but their doses were tiny and tightly regulated.
Modern vaccines use even
smaller amounts or have eliminated many of those ingredients entirely.
That being said, adverse effects are the exception and not the rule. All in all vaccines have been proven safe and effective since the discovery of the smallpox vaccine in 1796 by Edward Jenner.
That’s when Jenner, an English physician, performed the first documented vaccination.
Jenner observed that milkmaids who caught cowpox (a mild disease) never got smallpox (a deadly one).
So he tested the idea scientifically:
He took material from a cowpox sore
Inoculated an 8-year-old boy (very fucking unethical by todays standards

, but hey...)
Later exposed the boy to smallpox
The boy did not get sick
This experiment became the foundation of immunology, and the technique was named “vaccination” (from vacca, Latin for “cow”).
Before Jenner, some cultures practiced variolation—deliberately exposing people to smallpox to cause a mild case and immunity.
This existed in:
China (possibly as early as the 10th century)
Africa
Turkey
India
But modern vaccination—using a safer virus to prevent a dangerous one—began in 1796.
They have been and continue to save millions of people yearly; way way more than they could ever harm,
even if the myths and misconceptions about them were true; which are highly suspect at best and dubious at worst. And just bc someone didn't get the vaccine and didn't get covid doesn't amount to much, some people get colds and the flu and some don't. Same with covid or anything else. Correlation doesn't equal causation.
Again, I think there are "conspiracy" threads for fear mongering and other such stuff like this...
I'm pretty sure
@Putthataway and others will tell me I'm full of shit, but that's perfectly ok, and what the spirit of debate is all about.


But if you're not willing or able to defend either side of a debate at the flip of a coin, then maybe you should just sit down at the kids table [blatant thanksgiving reference lmao

] and let the adults talk... End of rant

Contrary opines are welcome