VAERS was a giant run-around maze of fuckery and bullshit.

report is made to VAERS. its immediately dismissed as coincidental, anecdotal, temporal, correlation

and a conspiracy theory too

reports went into limbo-land where they remained “filed, but not verified”

vaccine apologists would often cite ficticious reports to justify their skepticism of every report.

nevermind that it was they, themselves, who made the obviously fake report (vaccine turned me into spider man)

because there were so many reports, they couldn’t all be verified in a timely manner, and the reports piled up in a hopeless backlog

meanwhile, because the reports hadn’t been verified, they wouldn’t use the reports to take any actions

the VAERS database was set up so that anyone could make a report, which is one of its strengths and one of its weaknessss

as a strength, patients could by-pass their gatekeeper doctors who “just didn’t feel like the adverse reaction was related to the vaccine the doctor gave”)

but as a weakness, anyone could theoretically make a false or spurious report. making a false report is a felony, but so far nobody has ever been convicted

VAERS feels like plausible deniablilty. they pretend to be monitoring vaccines for problems, but then ignore every report for one reason or another.

idk what this new system will be like, but if they don’t allow people to make their own reports, you can throw it in the trash, since the vast majority of doctors are too stupid to connect the dots between vaccine and vaccine reaction, and will not “waste their time” filing a report that takes 30 minutes to complete on a good day.

they need an aggressive, active monitoring system that doesn’t sit back and wait for passive reports to come in. they need to actively call people who took vaccines, and ask very specific questions like, “have you had a fever since vaccine? if yes, what was the fever temperature?

we can’t depend on doctors to report their own fuck-ups