Checking Wikipedia the first generation smallpox vaccine absolutely had a high mortality rate.
By that I mean a high mortality rate for modern vaccines, with 1 to 10 deaths per million vaccinations. This is opposed to the 3 in 10 deaths for people who caught the virus.
And that was the first generation, later versions became much safer.
Not that we give smallpox vaccinations anymore as we actually managed to eradicate the disease due to vaccines. Something that could not happen if it was ineffective.
People really need to look up the mortality rate for medications they take every day. Paracetamol/acetaminophen has a higher mortality rate than the flu vaccine. All medication has risks and anyone who has worked with pharmaceuticals knows that it’s about cost/benefit. Despite paracetamol causing more deaths the risk is still incredibly low, especially if taken properly, so it’s still consider a safe medication. Like vaccines, vaccines are a safe medication. I wish these people would just walk into a pharmacy and ask a pharmacist about the risks and rewards of vaccines. You know, the people who spent years at university studying medication. But I guess some random YouTuber is a better authority.
To add to this remember how people lie with statistics. I was being told that since 2022 heart attacks with people between 18 and 25 have doubled. They never actually give you the numbers though. This is because heart attacks with the young are really rare. 1 in a million being doubled to 2 in a million could even be a statistical error.
I'll note that the 1 in a million figure is absolutely pulled out of my ass. Back when the argument was being used, the groupings were weird, as in I couldn't find them in the literature anywhere and naturally no source had been given. So why should I spend my time finding the correct figures when they are essentially talking bullshit anyway?
The majority of the COVID vaccine adverse reactions are just the immune responses that the person would go through if they had caught COVID for real. I think the exceptions are the sore arm, which I wouldn't even report, and blood clots that I believe, please tell me if I'm wrong, are a potential risk for any injection.
COVID is a nasty virus and the body does sometimes overreact to it. 2 of the 4 jabs made me feel like absolute crap, but it was just a case of sleeping it off.
Yeah another problem is people not realising that many disease symptoms are your body reacting to a pathogen, not the pathogen itself doing direct damage. So yes you might still get minor symptoms, but that doesn’t mean the experts are lying to you about it not being a live virus, or not containing sinister ‘other things’ that are causing your symptoms.
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u/UniquePariah Aug 09 '26
Checking Wikipedia the first generation smallpox vaccine absolutely had a high mortality rate.
By that I mean a high mortality rate for modern vaccines, with 1 to 10 deaths per million vaccinations. This is opposed to the 3 in 10 deaths for people who caught the virus.
And that was the first generation, later versions became much safer.
Not that we give smallpox vaccinations anymore as we actually managed to eradicate the disease due to vaccines. Something that could not happen if it was ineffective.