"worst experience of my life"

From The Epoch Times (edited for style):

‘Worst Experience of My Life’: Early Vaccine Adopters Suffer Injuries, Struggle to Get Proper Care

Dr. Danice Hertz remembers vividly the day she got a COVID-19 vaccine.

Hertz, a retired gastroenterologist, received Pfizer’s shot on Dec. 23, 2020, less than two weeks after U.S. regulators granted it emergency-use authorization.

Thirty minutes went by before an adverse reaction started.

“My face started burning and tingling, and my eyes got blurry,” Hertz told The Epoch Times. She also felt faint.

Her husband called paramedics, who came and found Hertz’s blood pressure was sky-high. They recommended she call a doctor.

Hertz became so sick she feared she would die. She experienced symptoms including severe facial pain, chest constriction, tremors, twitching limbs, and tinnitus.

“I felt like someone was pouring acid on me,” Hertz, of Los Angeles, California, said.

Hertz survived but still suffers. She has been to numerous specialists. Multiple experts found indications the vaccine triggered the reaction, according to medical records reviewed by The Epoch Times.

Hertz is one of millions of Americans who chose to get one of the COVID-19 vaccines soon after the government cleared them.

Since then, hundreds of millions of doses have been administered. Many recipients have been fine, if less protected than they were initially promised. But a growing number have endured severe reactions and have struggled to obtain treatments for their ailments.

The rest of the article is mainly about government denials that there is any correlational or causal connection between the injections and post-injection sequelae. If we're going to be fair about this, I think it's safe to say that, with well over a billion people worldwide having received the injection, statistics are very much in favor of the injection's generally not causing nasty side effects, otherwise we'd see a good fraction of a billion-plus such cases. We're not seeing that. So overall, I'd guess the vaccine is generally harmless in terms of side effects. (Anecdotally: my boss and my American coworker both reported some mild side effects after getting jabbed, but otherwise, they both seem perfectly well, and beyond those initial complaints, they've said nothing.)

The reason why I've gravitated into the anti-vaxxer camp is not related to potential side effects: for me, it's that the more I read about the vaccine's ineffectiveness against strains of COVID, the more convinced I am that natural immunity is the better path to take. Get COVID and have done. As studies continue, some experts are now saying natural immunity can last at least 18 months. (Not all scientists agree, of course. The whole field of study is a mess that isn't helped by the intrusion of politics and corporate interests.) The jab doesn't stop you from getting infected—that much is obvious now—and it doesn't prevent a carrier of the virus from infecting others. If the jab fails at the one job every jab has, then why get jabbed at all? As one person on Twitter said, if I got a mumps shot, and I then developed mumps, I'd question the effectiveness of the shot.

So, yes: I'm actively one of the unruly, unwashed anti-vaxxer crowd, now. I'm no longer part of the blander, "I'm not anti-vaxx; I'm anti-mandate" crowd. I've moved beyond. I see no reason to fill my veins with a substance that doesn't even work, and I now think getting injected is simply a mistake. You are, of course, free to evaluate the data your way and to make your own decisions, but I know where I stand.