Nothing is “completely safe”, but several orders of magnitude more people have died and suffered from COVID than have from any of the vaccines.
That you are having to reach for “well this other vaccine for this other condition caused a thing that was rare enough it took a lot of luck to link it back” is an unambiguous consequence of this. You know what we don’t have to search that hard for? The 7+ million actual deaths from COVID which reduced dramatically once the vaccine became available.
Deaths from COVID does not imply that the mRNA vaccines are not harmful and that there may be no dire consequences a year or two later because of it. It does not minimize the harmful impact of COVID either, no one (well, I surely did not) claimed this.
> rare enough
>> Studies showed that the risk of developing narcolepsy was about 5-13 times higher among those vaccinated with Pandemrix compared to the unvaccinated population, particularly in children and adolescents.
>>> The incidence rate of narcolepsy in vaccinated individuals was estimated to be about 1 in 16,000 to 1 in 50,000 doses, depending on the country and the age group.
>> In Finland, for instance, it was estimated that around 1 in 16,000 vaccinated children and adolescents developed narcolepsy.
Well, it may be "rare" in this particular case. What's not rare is the influx of people with MS (supposedly) in the country where I am located. It is OK though, no one is going to ever suspect the vaccine, we can blame everything on "long COVID", after all. That is not to say that long COVID does not exist.
Regardless of it being rare or not, it is besides the point. The point is that people should not be silenced and ridiculed and called a conspiracy theorist just because they brought up fair concerns. Those concerns do not invalidate nor minimize the harmful effects of COVID, and I feel like people think that when someone questions the safety of the vaccines, they somehow claim that COVID is all fun and sunshine. I personally never meant to claim that.
That you are having to reach for “well this other vaccine for this other condition caused a thing that was rare enough it took a lot of luck to link it back” is an unambiguous consequence of this. You know what we don’t have to search that hard for? The 7+ million actual deaths from COVID which reduced dramatically once the vaccine became available.