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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Okay, I don't have anything against vaccines, and I'm fully vaccinated against more stuff that most people because I've to take trips to tropical places and I live in Europe. Now, COVID and related vaccines were all about profits not about public health. We're talking about vaccines developed in record time with experimental tech, shady statistics and govts changing their "recommendations" every week based on profits above all "now we've friends that sell masks then let's force everyone to use them".

Here's an example of how ridiculous this situation was: in my country a cousin of mine needed to take his tetanus vaccine and asked the public health system for it, the answer? "Great, we can place you on a waiting list of 6 months to a year because there's no vaccines available for that now, the labs are using all their resources to make COVID vaccines". Here's the thing, tetanus is WAY more terminal than COVID ever was, especially when talking about people under 35 yo without any prior health complications. This doesn't look reasonable at all.

All the stats on COVID, vaccines, spreading of the virus etc. are very questionable at best and then we had govts signing documents saying if things went bad then the pharmaceutical wouldn't be prosecuted. I've been told that the EU contracts for most of those vaccines are nowhere to be found as well.

So yes, vaccines are important and increased our life expectancy by a lot but what happened with COVID was bullshit.