And none of the pro-vaxxers give a sh*t. I am sorry and hope you eventually recover. It's terrible, what happened. It's terrible, what they did. Oh, we do give a sh*t. It's genuinely awful to hear of anyone left with long-term health problems, whatever the cause. Where many of us differ is that we don't automatically equate temporal association with causation. A symptom appearing after a vaccination does not, by itself, establish that the vaccine caused it. That's precisely why medicine relies on careful investigation, epidemiology and controlled studies rather than individual anecdotes, however compelling or heartbreaking they may be. It's also why doctors ask difficult questions. For example, if the vaccine was the cause, why did the symptoms reportedly begin after the second Pfizer dose and not the first? That doesn't prove the vaccine wasn't involved, but neither does the timing alone prove that it was. It's one of many questions that need answering before concluding causation. Acknowledging that uncertainty isn't dismissing Impulse's experience. It's recognising that determining cause requires evidence beyond chronology - but for anti-vaxxes, its seems this timing is considered absolute evidence - and thats the flaw. Empathy and scientific scepticism aren't mutually exclusive.
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