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Shilling doesn’t necessarily have to be insincere. A shill might truly believe in the product he’s promoting. The connotation of insincerity comes from the old snake oil tactic of covertly inserting an associate into the crowd to interject his seemingly impartial testimony about the snake oil. That’s not the situation as much nowadays. Kelce might be dumb enough to think truly that Pfizer’s mRNA product is good. He’s still a shill.
If it helps, I’ll apologize for having you think I was accusing you of being insincere. I’ll make a deal with you. Let me first define the shorthand “actual mRNA” as being an mRNA gene editing product that was manufactured as intended, and from production to injection was kept at the right temperature and otherwise maintained and administered properly. So if you’re open minded that seemingly vaxxed people with no adverse effects might not have gotten “actual mRNA”, then I’ll be open minded about the possibility that someone who took “actual mRNA” might not have suffered adverse effects. Like you said, it’s hard to tell who got what. People have different bodies that react differently or that might not react at all.
I’ll maintain that it’s still not a “good” product because it carries risk with no reward, and the best a user can hope for is a neutral effect such as nothing happening.
What reason do I have to believe that placebos were given, beyond “it’s possible that it happened”?
Like, I get that it could happen, but what reasoning is there to believe that it did?
Six people injected with saline instead of COVID-19 vaccine at Niagara clinic
I have an image of a compilation of headlines like this one that I saved and texted to people, but I had trouble pasting it here. Here’s just one of them. I can dig up more.
You should’ve been aware of the reports of saline placebos.
So, the people who distributed and administered the shot, realized they gave saline, and worked to inform the people and correct it?
Only when the “error” was caught would it be reported in the press. If it went unnoticed, it wouldn’t make it as a news story and we wouldn’t hear about it. If you want to gather a saline detecting task force and take a time machine back to 2021, go ahead.
Stop playing dumb.