All you people with your science backgrounds ( not sure about you, Ed!) seem to have forgotten some science basics. I learned this in Biology 101 in university.
1. Listing off individual cases is called "anecdotal." It is never used in science or the scientific method. It is tragic, yes, but for every single person you list who got hurt by a vaccine, I can put up 100 names and cases who died painfully from COVID, or who are long haulers.
You can list vaccine reactions till the cows come home, and they are just anecdotal. The church uses testimonials, which are similar. But the church is not looking for the science, but what God has done personally in our lives. Testimonies work for Christians, but not for vaccines.
Science uses the scientific method. It starts with a hypothesis. An experiment is set up with a minimum of 2 groups, those getting the real vaccine (in this case), and those who think they are getting the vaccine, but instead, they are getting a saline solution, which does nothing, called the Placebo Group.
After a specified time, they examine both groups. The doctors, techs, and experiment individuals don't know who got the actual vaccine. (Double blind study.) If the study goes according to plan, the trial vaccine should help the people in the vaccine group, and no change in the Placebo group who didn't get the vaccine, but thought they did. Or, if the vaccine didn't work, both groups should be similar in results.
The problem is, people's expectations can interfere with the results. In the 1990's, the first biologics to treat RA came out. Remicade was trialed at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, (where my dad was a professor, but not in science!).
Many universities all over the world did large, controlled, double blind studies. People were desperate from some kind of treatment that stopped this painful, deforming disease. They X-rayed everyone's hands and feet before the study started. Every patient in both groups got the same treatment and encouragement and everyone was convinced they got the biologic. At the end of the year, hands and feet were X-rayed again, deterioration from the earlier ones were noted.
When they interviewed the study participants, 52% of the Placebo group thought they had gotten the med, and were feeling much better. Their hope was so high, they somehow ignored their pain, and thought they were improved. The X-ray studies were instrumental. All the people in the Placebo Group, including the 52% of the people who thought they were improved, showed considerable degeneration in the hands and feet. In other words, they thought they were better, but were not. The meds had not worked, because they didn't get it. This is why you have to have a way to control other factors.
It became an ethical issue. They could not continue to give people a placebo and let them think they were improving. The Ethics committee decided everyone would get the biologic, Remicade, in both groups.
Large groups with a placebo group are the scientific method. That's why I thought Nehemiah had no science background. Because he seems to know nothing about the scientific method.
All the COVID vaccines have been tested in huge experiments around the world, for many years. They used the SARS virus that they had been working on vaccines for over 10 years! Why didn't the anti-vaxers mentioned how many actual double blind studies these vaccines have been through? They weren't just invented one day in Feb, and distribution started 6 months later.
It is just shocking the lies the anti-vaxers have been presenting as evidence. I know many people who died of COVID. I don't know anyone who has had a single side effect, except a sore injection arm from the vaccine. I had NO side effects, not even a sore arm! I'm not saying there aren't some terrible side effects, but they certainly do not compare with the damage and death COVID-19 brings.
Here's a good article on scientific method. I left out some of the factors for length's sake, this will give you everything.
https://www.livescience.com/20896-science-scientific-method.html
After you have read this, try and apply it to what the antivaxers are saying. I'd love to give a lecture on statistics, and the way they are being misused by the antivaxers. Nehemiah yells in bold, big letters, but that is a scare technique. Anyone with the science on their side doesn't need to yell at people to prove they are right. They just need to put the evidence on the table. As for the name callers, we don't even have to look at science. We can just look at the words of Jesus said through the NT writers!
"My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry," James 1:19
"But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, 16 keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander." 1 Peter 3:15-16
People scream and yell to get their way. So much better to follow Jesus, esp., when you are spreading false information for the purpose of scaring people into not getting a vaccine!