{"id":17664,"date":"2022-02-16T23:31:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T07:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17664"},"modified":"2022-02-17T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:16:51","slug":"2022-02-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17664","title":{"rendered":"2022-02-16 Opinion Re: VAERS, Covid-19, Vaccines, Vaccination And Hesitancy, Skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Guardian opinion article is harshly critical of just about everything and everyone having to do with Covid-19, vaccines and their approvals, the pharmaceutical companies, the CDC, and vaccinations, antivaxxers, and official policies.  The one item I believe is the most misleading is the paragraph about VAERS, the vaccine adverse event reporting list. The author portrays this list as having 12,000 deaths caused by vaccinations.  But **correlation does not mean causation**.  It is just as likely that all of the deaths on the list were not caused by vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>The proof that the vaccines are safe and effective is that over 175 Million have been vaccinated and there are very few people who have suffered an adverse reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The author is highly critical of the CDC being paid by pharmaceuticals companies.  But that is a government regulation.<\/p>\n<p>There are many other items in this article that are dubious.  The author uses &#8220;left&#8221; or &#8220;left leaning&#8221; which indicates that he is biased against the left.  He is especially critical of Biden&#8217;s administration.  The politics should be left out of these opinion pieces because it just causes divisiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether I give this a grade of C because it does have a few points that should be made.  But it strays far away from the topic of why people don&#8217;t want to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/feb\/15\/this-is-why-some-people-dont-want-to-get-the-covid-vaccine\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/feb\/15\/this-is-why-some-people-dont-want-to-get-the-covid-vaccine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Guardian opinion article is harshly critical of just about everything and everyone having to do with Covid-19, vaccines and their approvals, the pharmaceutical companies, the CDC, and vaccinations, antivaxxers, and official policies. The one item I believe is the most misleading is the paragraph about VAERS, the vaccine adverse event reporting list. The author<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17664\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,250,893,722,1010],"tags":[1733,1836,400,1835,1838,1837,725],"class_list":["post-17664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-agencies","category-health","category-mental-health","category-newsmedia","category-president","tag-antivaxxer","tag-cdc","tag-covid-19","tag-hesitancy","tag-pharma","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17667,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664\/revisions\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}