> But if you want to mis-characterize things, by all means do so.
People were allowed to have open and honest discussion about things. I saw plenty of discussion about myocarditis at the time from reputable sources and in reasonable manners.
But they were all pointing out that this is just an aspect of flu vaccines, that we had known it could happen even with regular flu vaccines for a long time, that the incident rate is lower than just getting covid (or the flu) in general, and that the severity was also less than that of if you had gotten it as a result of covid.
Because that's a better picture of reality because it gives you the full context.
Instead of pointing out that whole context, a whole lot of people left it at "it's the clot shot! it gives you myocarditis!"
And despite this apparent widespread suppression that everyone claims was going on, this bad-faith misrepresentation of the reality of the situation was all over the place. I saw many times more people spouting misinformation than I did the actual full details of this stuff. Like .01% of the potentially fatal misinformation got cleaned up and people are acting like there was this brutal suppression of the truth.
People were allowed to have open and honest discussion about things. I saw plenty of discussion about myocarditis at the time from reputable sources and in reasonable manners.
But they were all pointing out that this is just an aspect of flu vaccines, that we had known it could happen even with regular flu vaccines for a long time, that the incident rate is lower than just getting covid (or the flu) in general, and that the severity was also less than that of if you had gotten it as a result of covid.
Because that's a better picture of reality because it gives you the full context.
Instead of pointing out that whole context, a whole lot of people left it at "it's the clot shot! it gives you myocarditis!"
And despite this apparent widespread suppression that everyone claims was going on, this bad-faith misrepresentation of the reality of the situation was all over the place. I saw many times more people spouting misinformation than I did the actual full details of this stuff. Like .01% of the potentially fatal misinformation got cleaned up and people are acting like there was this brutal suppression of the truth.