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Update: 1am, still alive. A lot of coughing. Scratchy throat. Breathing roughly the same as during the last update -- worse than usual, but not severe. Lightheadedness continues to be an issue. No exhaustion. Mild pain at the injection site, but that's predictable. Feels a bit worse than what I remember the Janssen being, but it could just be a recency bias. Don't think I've had any reduction in taste.

adjl posted...

It's variable enough that a sample size like yours doesn't mean much of anything (nor mine, except to conclude that it's too variable to identify trends from anecdotal evidence). It's understandable that you'd follow that rationale, since humans are innately pretty bad at risk analysis and tend to place way too much value on personal experiences/close anecdotes, but it's really not a sensible way to make decisions like this.

I looked at the overwhelming number of results, all of which pointed to Janssen having a far lower impact -- and I thought you even acknowledged that the time, then justified it by suggesting it meant the Janssen did less good.

adjl posted...

Remember how insistent you were that the early evidence of blood clots must have been from that one instance of cross-contamination with A-Z, despite there not being a shred of proof of that being the reason (in a situation that would have generated pretty conclusive proof, since those monitoring side effects would have noticed if every single Janssen vaccine that caused blood clots came from the contaminated lots)?

AZ was ALREADY noted as having those issues abroad and the two were being produced in the same facility when Janssen started getting going. Considering you had something with a known health impact being produced in the same, it wasn't much of a leap. Does it all tie back into that? It was never confirmed. But the time, it certainly seemed plausible. My other suspicion at the time, given all of the deceased were women within a certain age bracket, was that it could be an interaction with birth control, but I don't think anything was ever found (if it was looked for).

adjl posted...

I think it's more that you decided from day one that Janssen was your favourite and have been aggressively championing it and rejecting any criticisms ever since. [...]

I'm not sure why you've been cheerleading so hard for it, but the reality is that Janssen is a bottom-tier option by pretty much every metric except ease of storage, a reality that's only gotten worse with Omicron.

More like Pfizer was being championed for political ends. Bear in mind Pfizer scored massive points with the Biden administration for its decision to not announce a vaccine until after the 2020 election (which it acknowledged as being politically motivated, but laughably suggested it was a non-partisan move when it clearly benefited one side and hurt the other). Considering COVID was a major concern in 2020, that announcement could've shifted the election. And now, unsurprisingly, Pfizer is being pushed as the gold standard.