What motivates anti-vaxxers?

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I recently had to block a user on here for spreading harmful disinformation on Covid-19 vaccinations - they claimed that "more people are killed by the vaccine than by guns".

This claim is patently false and easily refuted by looking at the extensive scientific literature on the topic (a sample of which is available here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html).

Which got me thinking: what motivates people to spread this nonsense?

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ElwoodBlues · M

For those who claim that the mRNA vaccines have side effects, this is true, and not the whole story.

First the biggest side effect, in a small number of people, is an allergic reaction. And that is why vaccination locations have you stay around 15 min. That's plenty of time for a reaction to develop and for them to hit you with an epi-pen.

The long term risk of mRNA vaccines is a slight uptick in myocarditiis rates. myo- means muscle, card- is the heart; -itis means inflammation of.

The association between COVID-19 vaccination and increased incidences of cardiac-related disorders such as myocarditis has been described by several studies.12,28,29 Goddard et al.30 conducted a large study evaluating the incidence of cardiac side effects of the vaccine among 7 million people in the United States. They reported an incidence of 320 cases 1–98days after approximately 7 million vaccine doses.30

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10402862/

320 cases in 7 million patients. That's 0.0046% And the myocarditis clears up over time. Odds of DEATH among the unprotected is 0.5%; odds of long covid are 5X higher.

In other words, a person has a 500x higher chance of long Covid than of temporary myocarditis from the vaccine.