I’ve seen a video talking about the leaked Facebook files where it says they should remove true information about side effects. It says Facebook should remove:

True information:

a. Delta: The Surgeon General wants us to remove true information about side effects.

Why do you think people should or shouldn’t know about the side effects of the COVID vaccine?

There are people questioning the veracity of the quote so I’ve searched a bit and found some sources.

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  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s because 99.9% of the time when someone says “I just want you to know about the side effects” they

    • Have learned it from YouTube or the internet and do not possess a medical degree
    • Do not fully understand what is reported as a side effect, or that most reporting databases are treated as “Could it even remotely be possibly attributed to a vaccine, if so then post it here and let the experts figure out”
    • Will not admit that experts are in fact, experts, and that they should be relied on more than random internet people
    • Will continue to argue on any point for eternity, never listening to any counter points

    We have heard it, we understand it already, we are informed. The risks are minute and rare, vaccines are some of those things that we each take a tiny risk so that society as a whole can survive and continue without these horrible diseases. If you are unwilling to take a vaccine that has a <0.01% chance of giving you a minor side effect because you are so selfish that you can’t see what herd immunity is, then that says more about you than any side effects would.

    • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      We are talking about the US government censoring true information about side effects, you are talking about something different.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I love that he keeps referencing “the government” and “the US government” as if they control what other countries do. Like Sweden would give two fucks what the US government is trying to hide, they’d be telling everyone.

          • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
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            2 years ago

            That was a mistake, I fixed it. The quote is from the US government, this doesn’t have anything to do with all governments.

            • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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              2 years ago

              No dude, that’s my point. Even if the US government wanted to keep it a secret, why haven’t we heard anything from Australia? Switzerland? Sweden? The EU in general? The US government does not “control the world” dude, you know that right? If it was unsafe and the US was censoring it… other countries wouldn’t have to follow our rules. That’s what I’m saying. if it’s a conspiracy, then it would have to be a global conspiracy beyond anything we’ve ever seen, with zero leaks, with zero doctors coming forward breaking oaths, with no rogue governments.

              There definitely wouldn’t be some video posted on freaking YouTube about it.

              • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
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                2 years ago

                There have been doctors coming out, you just can’t hear their opinion on the main channels because they are controlled by the US. And there have been videos posted on freaking YouTube about it, but guess what YouTube is censored just as well as Facebook because it’s hosted in the US.

                • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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                  2 years ago

                  Oh and the deceased! We be hearing about them world wide, oh and the families of the deceased. What about the friends of the deceased! With that many of those people who have been kept quiet now too. How many hundreds of millions are in on the secret now?

                  • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
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                    2 years ago

                    No one is talking about the deceased. As long as I know the side effects include myocarditis in 1 out of 35 people vaccinated, so if someone dies of it, it wouldn’t automatically be attributed to the vaccine, specially with the US censoring the relation between vaccine and side effects.

                    Myocardial Injury after COVID-19 mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination

                    But I found the paper in a Rumble video so I guess that makes it misinformation right @Veraticus@lib.lgbt ? Or is it just when you disagree with it?

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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        2 years ago

        LOL dude no, get out of here. I was told when it came out that 200,000 had died of the vaccine. That’s an entire mid size city in the US, gone. Poof. That means everyone in the US would know at least several people who have died from it. Stop acting superior, it’s a proven fact, government or not.

        You are selfish for being afraid of a vaccine. You are selfish for not being brave enough to go get it to add to herd immunity to protect those who cannot get protection of it. You do not have some secret knowledge of government conspiracies, you are not Nero of the matrix and do not have everything figured out while we are dumb NPCs. Go, be brave, get the shot, and move on to something else in your life. If you get a side effect that lasts more than a day, I will personally buy you a coke for being wrong.