"URGENT: Covid vaccines make kids more likely to get Long Covid"
A repackaging of yesterday's post
This post (and email) is to provide readers a more sensationalist interpretation of yesterday’s post and the study reviewed therein.
The reader may pretend I am a different writer, announcing “A new study shows that Covid vaccinated kids who get infected had 30% to 100% more Long Covid than unvaccinated controls! See this post which explains the results:
This is the smoking gun — proof that Covid vaccination of kids and teens was a crime against humanity. For all we know, for kids who were given an experimental medical product with no proven benefit, the vaccine enhancement of “Covid” will keep just getting worse and worse!”
And etc.
Notes:
Note that the actual author of this post, i.e. myself, does not support such a dire interpretation. I do believe that this matches anecdotal evidence among younger Covid vaccinated — a general theme of unreasonably rough infection experiences, especially with Omicron — but still, most of them are not disabled (though some are1). Still, relative risk is not absolute risk, and the results of the study only point to a minor net negative (at least for now).
By the way, I thought at the time of writing the post that such a follow-up might be necessary, given that my review was cautiously approached and presented in light of:
Limitations to the study (and lack of raw data)
The low number of (increased or actual) instances of Long Covid among either group of kids.
This way, I can offer readers the sensationalist interpretation without including it in the study review itself.
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Vaccination status presumed based on science-idolatry
Great update!
As I see it, long Covid has two meanings; the first of course being Covid post viral syndrome which isn't actually Covid.... but the second is the fear propaganda narrative that was spun up mid '21 to scare people into getting themselves and their children vaxxed regardless of medical need, and where breakthrough infections were starting to destroy the prior narrative of 'saving grandma'.
Like infection and many other supposed benefits, promoting the vaxx to address long covid is an off-label use not tested in clinical trials. Apparently pharma companies are forbidden to advertise off-label use for their products in the USA, but politicians/media/activists/public heath can do that for them - for freeee!
A quick random search turns up this recent study:
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-01-12-covid-19-vaccines-found-be-effective-reducing-long-covid-symptoms
Haven't time to wade through it, but Table 2 does seem to suggest long covid is more common in post vaxx infections - am I missing something? Also the text says: "Most previous studies assessed pre-infection vaccination and long COVID only among people with COVID-19, thus overlooking the effect of vaccines to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection as part of the pathway to developing post-COVID-19 complications" which does sound a bit suspicious. Trouble is if overall prevention of long covid relies partly on infection prevention, what does it help if the vaxx just staves off infections 'til later - and handily just outside the study period?
😃 thanks for my dose of sensationalism.
"Still, relative risk is not absolute risk, and the results of the study only point to a minor net negative (at least for now)." - great point.
It's concerning for sure though, probably more so if you know people who have probably been affected by the injection. My 34yo son just had a second friend in hir 30s die within a 1 year period. First one died in his sleep, the second one was jumping into a lake with some friends and never came up. My 39 yo daughter-in-law was diagnosed with a heart bundle branch problem and gets dizzy when standing up sometimes, and had strange bruises appear on her feet. 😑 I can't know for sure if all was caused by the shots, but definitely put of the ordinary.