> Even if you weren't lying about that bit, non-mRNA vaccines exist and were approved in the US right alongside the mRNA vaccines.
From your own source:
> In April 2021, the CDC and the FDA issued a joint statement recommending that use of the Janssen vaccine be suspended, due to reports of six cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis—a "rare and severe" blood clot—in combination with low levels of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia), in six women between the ages of 18 and 48 who had received the vaccine. The symptoms occurred 6–13 days after they had received the vaccination, and it was reported that one woman had died and a second woman had been hospitalized in critical condition.
> In April, the FDA and the CDC determined that the recommended pause regarding the use of the Janssen COVID‑19 Vaccine in the US should be lifted and use of the vaccine should resume.
There are other non-mRNA vaccines on the list, too.
The effects were never resolved, they just updated the fact sheets to include the risk of developing thrombosis...
> In April, the FDA and the CDC determined that the recommended pause regarding the use of the Janssen COVID‑19 Vaccine in the US should be lifted and use of the vaccine should resume. The EUA and the fact sheets were updated to reflect the risks of thrombosis-thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS).
> The effects were never resolved, they just updated the fact sheets to include the risk of developing thrombosis…
Sure. No medical intervention is risk free. Not even the over-the-counter stuff. Tylenol will happily kill you.
For every vaccine, we balance the rare side effects against the disease it's mitigating. I assure you there were more than six cases of severe clots from COVID.
And yet, at the time (and still now!) the vast majority of government and health officials stated that developing conditions and side-effects from the vaccine was either impossible, or so rare it wasn't worth mentioning.
Where anecdotally, I know more people in my own personal life (including myself) that developed far worse conditions from the vaccine (granted, usually Pfizer and Moderna, though other offerings don't appear to have fared much better) than what they ever received from a COVID infection.
Sure it's possible the vaccine made that the case, but that's the kind of thing that needs to be said up front, not obscured and downplayed until years after the fact finger-wagging about "well technically the *government* never required you to get it! Only everything else did, at the strong recommendation of the government!"
> And yet, at the time (and still now!) the vast majority of government and health officials stated that developing conditions and side-effects from the vaccine was either impossible, or so rare it wasn't worth mentioning.
I don't doubt some politicians give black-and-white assessments as they are prone to do, but from Fauci on downwards the scientific/medical folks were always quite honest about this. Everything has side effects; I distinctly recall them being discussed at Trump press conferences. They were (and remain) rare. We've given billions of doses of the COVID vaccines, with a good safety record.
> Where anecdotally, I know more people in my own personal life (including myself) that developed far worse conditions from the vaccine (granted, usually Pfizer and Moderna, though other offerings don't appear to have fared much better) than what they ever received from a COVID infection.
That's the entire point of a vaccine, yes. You feel shitty for a few days instead of dying.
From your own source:
> In April 2021, the CDC and the FDA issued a joint statement recommending that use of the Janssen vaccine be suspended, due to reports of six cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis—a "rare and severe" blood clot—in combination with low levels of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia), in six women between the ages of 18 and 48 who had received the vaccine. The symptoms occurred 6–13 days after they had received the vaccination, and it was reported that one woman had died and a second woman had been hospitalized in critical condition.
Not exactly a great "alternative".