This isn't a really good analysis though, because everybody I've seen write about this document seems to forget that it is looking at a population of people who reported vaccine side effects. The denominator is not simply people who took the vaccine: it's people who took the vaccine and had negative effects. So it makes all of the numbers look really really bad.
One of the common examples that I see is people reporting that the stillbirth rate is something like 80%. It's not. It's 80% (this isn't the exact number, because I'm doing this from memory) for pregnant women who reported vaccine related side effects. And it's only 80% if you ignore the people who never followed up, which makes sense because many people will not follow up if their conditions improve.
I still think the vaccine is dangerous, and I will never take it while alive, but I just don't think this Pfizer release is as damning as people are making it out to be. It's bad, for sure, but it's not as bad.
This isn't a really good analysis though, because everybody I've seen write about this document seems to forget that it is looking at a population of people who reported vaccine side effects. The denominator is not simply people who took the vaccine: it's people who took the vaccine and had negative effects. So it makes all of the numbers look really really bad.
One of the common examples that I see is people reporting that the stillbirth rate is something like 80%. It's not. It's 80% (this isn't the exact number, because I'm doing this from memory) for pregnant women who reported vaccine related side effects. And it's only 80% if you ignore the people who never followed up, which makes sense because many people will not follow up if their conditions improve.
I still think the vaccine is dangerous, and I will never take it while alive, but I just don't think this Pfizer release is as damning as people are making it out to be. It's bad, for sure, but it's not as bad.
Yeah taking these numbers out of context just makes us look stupid. You have to consider the entire population to draw any real conclusions.