Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'

There are definitely people with the view that they should be mandatory and I've personally started to encounter social pressure to get vaccinated, which I don't want to do, because I lead a low-contact hermit's life and the odds of dying from COVID which I probably won't catch if I maintain my lifestyle a few more months appears to be lower than the chance I'll die from a vaccine that I definitely get

For my age cohort the chance of death from either is infinitesimal but because of Bayes it might make sense to continue to avoid both, but if I try to explain that to my peers they might think I'm a Trump supporter, and as everyone knows, Trump supporters should be shunned from polite society (especially since the "insurrection"), so I see this as a choice between social excommunication and a questionable injection I don't want

Fun times

There is an availability bias, where stories about people dying after vaccinations are amplified in fringe media, and conversely, the numbers of people who died in nursing homes of actual covid were suppressed by mainstream authorities. There's uncertainty on every part of the issue. Interpreting the general uncertainty we live with as evidence for a hidden agenda on the part of authorities is it's own self fulfilling bias, but when I read about these vaccine risks, I'm looking for a plausible model of the options.

I would (and did) jump out of planes with a parachute recreationally, but if untrustworthy people started advocating it, proposing it should be mandatory, and unstable people dressed up in double flight suits in the streets started shaming others into doing it, I would definitely not jump out of planes anymore.

If it were true that the probability of complications/death from covid are heavily skewed to people over 75 and some obvious co-morbidities, we could vaccinate everyone in that risk group in a matter of weeks. What is the case for anyone who isn't a medical worker outside the real at-risk cohort to take on the endogenous risk of a vaccine? I could make one, but I'm more interested in what more knowledgeable people have to say about it, and judging by rising popular skepticism, we're going to need one.

When covid started last year, as someone young'ish and healthy I signed up to volunteer for human challenge trials and started to organize a convalescent plasma drive, because that's what I thought being civic minded meant. I have living family members who were affected by polio before widespread vaccinations were available, and recognize the importance of vaccines on herd immunity. After a year of hall of mirrors bullshit about masks and politics, I'm struggling with the case for why a low-risk healthy person would take a vaccine with non-trivial side effect risks for a virus that is less dangerous than their normal activities, when the vulnerable people who get vaccinated (for whom the risk/reward is clearer) are no longer vulnerable.

Is there a conversation to be had on the model for this, or does it come down to "conspiracy theorists who put us at risk," vs. "normal people" and there's no point in engaging it? Is the best argument just a matter of, "we live in a society and part of that is accepting the jab?"

Not quite sure why I'm getting downvoted for publishing those two links, but hey :)

Anyway, here's the UK's disclaimer from the Yellow Card summary link you posted.

Part of our monitoring role includes reviewing reports of suspected side effects. Any member of the public or health professional can submit suspected side effects through the Yellow Card scheme. The nature of Yellow Card reporting means that reported events are not always proven side effects. Some events may have happened anyway, regardless of vaccination. This is particularly the case when millions of people are vaccinated, and especially when most vaccines are being given to the most elderly people and people who have underlying illness.

I'm set to take the oxford d vaccine, but I could also take the pfizer vaccine.

I've had elevated blood markers for clotting during covid-19, and now I hear of this.

I'm thinking of taking 75 mg aspirin, before and after the vaccine. On the other hand, the issue is the patients have low platelet count and I understand that this is the way aspirin reduces blod clotting.

So, do these patients have low platelet count because they had blod clots, or the other way around?

Afik, in the case of COVID-19, clotting is an autoimune issue, so perhaps the clotting is not something related to the astra Zeneca vaccine, but something about the immune response itself.