@stanjupiter you are talking with someone who has had 5 Covid injections of various kinds. I am an older person, have had few illnesses in adult life, but lots in childhood because certain vaccinations didn't exist. I have had little to no reaction to my vaccinations - the last one made me tired for one day and I had a sore arm for a while, but nothing which stopped me from living a normal life.
Just before Covid began I was in England/Europe around Christmas time and returned with the worst cold of my life - it continued even in the warm Australian summer - reason? I had never had a flu shot! so I had my first flu shot that Australian autumn - but shortly after that Covid began and I was one of the first patients to have the Covid shot.
Re: censorship:
Censorship of all kinds - various groups who 'form opinions' or become 'influencers' and try and disseminate them for all sorts of reasons seem to abound by virtue of the internet and the many chat groups, fora etc. where every man and his dog, (or just to be WOKE: every woman and her bitch
), can spout forth uncensored fact or fiction is/are a fact of modern life. One has to step carefully through this maze of facts and falsehoods.
In the olden days you had few opinions; you had your family, who had a fixed social standing and you absorbed their 'virtues and vices' with your mother's milk. Then you had the fairly narrow environment people grew up in, mostly not extending beyond 30 - 60km around their birth place; so you mixed with the same people, same church, same small government officials over and over.
Newspaper had some influence.
The industrial revolution and people living, working in greater communities stimulated ideas - and often also caused the suppression of 'dangerous' ideas by governments and so on. As a result we now have societies in the West, mostly in countries where 'white' people live - which are elected, fair and democratic - I am not including Russia in these.
What we have now - worldwide, without borders - is an almost limitless flow of information, not all of which is benign. Yes governments will try and keep a lid on things 'they' (our elected and thus trusted representatives) consider unhelpful, but so far I have not come across a Western government, working within the limits of Western democracies, or similar, which tries to impose the dictatorial rules on its people you seem to intimate.
I also feel, I am not qualified to second-guess people whose training and experience far surpasses mine, when it comes to fighting a new virus and experimenting with vaccines to protect me and my loved ones. I take them and my doctor's advice on trust!
As you demonstrate with the select information you have published on here, research information is freely available - but it seems to me you are looking at it mostly with a negative bias, hence I felt I had to check that article and added the concluding paragraph.
I have friends who have become estranged because they feel strongly like you do - I feel sad, that there is this quirk in the human brain which tells you: You and only you (I, and only I) have the right opinion, the right attitude.
It is doubt which has always spurred progress in every human endeavour. Just look how Charles Darwin was hesitating to publish his idea of how mankind evolved from the ape tribe - he had a wife who was very religious and was deeply offended by her husband's writings - he knew that, hesitated to publish his findings, but in the end he had to publish because a friend and competitor had come up with similar ideas (Russell).
I do not doubt our government nor its officials, but have reservations about the competitiveness (and profit motive) among giant industrial (and chemical) entities, spreading across the planet, hence a bit of healthy doubt, criticism as to their methodologies, motivation is a good thing, and that's why I look in on you people from time to time.
Go well
Taurisk
