Humbercod, it doesn't interest me that this former policeman now writes stories for a living. So does Dan Brown but I wouldn't go looking to him for scientific analysis. Regardless of how well he can write a story, the ex-copper doesn't appear to have any real understanding of science or statistical analysis. Much like yourself, in fact, as you still seem to be confusing deaths reported through the Yellow Card system as being undoubtedly caused directly by the vaccines. They are not. Let me repeat, the vast majority of the deaths you are talking about will have nothing at all to do with the vaccination.
If you look at a substantial proportion of the population (and the older and less well cohorts, especially), a great many otherwise healthy people each year simply drop dead at any given moment due to natural causes i.e. congenital problems, undiagnosed illnesses, strokes, heart attacks, etc. These natural deaths are just background 'noise' when looking for serious side effects from vaccines or other medical treatments and the Yellow Card system is specifically there to look for underlying actual side-effects. Such as the very rare blood clots with the adenovirus vector vaccines which we know about and emerging signs that the mRNA vaccines can, on extremely rare occasions cause (usually treatable) events of myocarditis in young adults.
I'm surprised that you should dismiss out of hand the study (not yet peer reviewed, obviously) comparing scans which apparently shows neurotropism caused by Covid. Here's a link to that preprint, by the way:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1.full.pdfNote that the whole point of the UK Biobank project is, and I quote, "improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses". This paper, seems to be an ideal use of the pre-Covid Biobank data and the findings seem pretty stark to me though, of course, we'll have to wait until it is peer reviewed before we can be absolutely sure. The authors are working for respected institutions, so safe to say it isn't a spurious paper aimed at gaining attention and funding, as so many are.
Have a quick skim through the paper and let me know your thoughts about it. You can just read the initial abstract. Ought to take you a few minutes. Take a look and have your say.
This is a novel coronavirus and we still don't know half of what it can do to some people despite the millions who have already died from it across the world and the millions still suffering the aftermath of the disease (around 1 million people with 'Long Covid' in the UK at present). The fact that we have vaccines which are still effective against the current variants is good news, but unless we can shut down transmission, it is only likely to be a matter of time before even more dangerous variants arrive. The absolute disinformation about the current vaccination programme from the conspiracy theorists out there is pretty shameful in my view.
My children are young enough that they'll not be getting any vaccine in the near future so that isn't a consideration at present. I am convinced that the mRNA vaccines are safe given that many hundreds of millions of doses have been given around the world and there have only been a vanishingly small number of problems reported. However, it wouldn't surprise me if young children ended up being given other vaccine types next year. We'll have to wait and see what happens in that regard.
Interesting you should lever 'Global warming' into the conversation for some unknown reason. We do have incontrovertible numerical evidence that warming is rapidly occurring and, heck, if you insist on relying on anecdote, just think back to all we've all seen over the past couple of decades. I do believe Anthropogenic Climate Change is occurring and the data is all on my side (not to mention the majority of scientists).
Putting that to one side, I'm rather baffled that you think there is no evidence that children are spreading the Delta variant in schools and then on into the community! Where are you getting your news from?
Here's the latest round of REACT-1 data:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/findings-from-covid-19-round-12-react-1-study-publishedHere's a snippet from the report:
Here's PHE from 3rd June:
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Plenty of evidence out there for increasing numbers of outbreaks in schools to the extent I'm not going to bother doing your googling for you. Just have a quick search.
Latest Government data indicates Delta has a secondary attack rate around 41% higher than Alpha (discussion starts on page 26):
https://assets.publishing.serv.....ical_Briefing_15.pdfWith this in mind, of course children are catching and spreading the virus in schools and then taking it home!
The swine flu narcolepsy issues for one vaccine type were a sad situation. Thankfully, it doesn't appear that there is any similar signal with the mRNA vaccines that has appeared. Similarly, no evidence of ADE despite tens of thousands of confirmed reinfections which I'm sure you know. Luckily, work on SARS vaccine candidates showed the areas where ADE was most likely to occur and the development of the Covid-19 vaccines was carried out to avoid these.
The technology behind mRNA vaccines has been in development for decades so it's not such a big jump in reality, even if the timeline has been advanced by a few years due to the emergency of this pandemic. It's no coincidence that both Pfizer and Moderna were able to produce their mRNA vaccines pretty much at the same time. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that CureVac's mRNA vaccine is effective enough (reported 47% efficacy in their recently-announced trial results) and it remains to be seen if the Sanofi mRNA vaccine works well enough or if the Chinese one works as well.
It's a real shame that Novavax have encountered manufacturing issues as their recombinant protein vaccine is a more standard type and it also seems to be very effective. I'm sort of hoping that this is the one I'll be given as a booster this autumn, but I'll be happy to take whichever one I'm given. I'll be very confident that it is several orders of magnitude safer than actually catching Covid.