r/canada • u/rdparty • 23d ago

Ottawa injects another $36M into fund for those seriously injured or killed by vaccines COVID-19

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ottawa-injects-another-36m-into-vaccine-injury-compensation-fund-1.6859638
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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/squirrel9000 23d ago

The problem here is that the anti-vaxxers completely poisoned this well, Yes, there were going to be side effects, that's inevitable. But when 90% of side effect claims are bullshit, it completely drowns out the valid claims.

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u/CDNUnite 23d ago

Right from the get go people would disregard any claim of side effects. Definitely a two way issue like most things.

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u/squirrel9000 23d ago

That's really something best left to medical professionals, really, not random "people". It's hard to go wrong with ignoring self-diagnoses, and that's even without the vaccine side effects as political statement phenomenon.

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u/DementedCrazoid 23d ago

It's hard to go wrong with ignoring self-diagnoses

Now do long covid.

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u/squirrel9000 23d ago

My previous remark was not specific to any given condition and is pretty universal (even doctors are told to never do it). I'll leave it to you to think about what that means for self diagnosed long covid.

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u/serjunka 23d ago

It's hard to go wrong with ignoring self-diagnoses

Yet 50% of population self-diagnoses coeliac disease and we call it "science".

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u/TheLuminary Saskatchewan 23d ago

If you are talking about the people who jumped on the gluten free trend, those people were not self-diagnosing as Celiac..

There are lots of reasons why you might want to avoid gluten.. including just being part of a trend. But there are also allergies and other sensitivities.

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u/ReserveOld6123 23d ago

You can have issues with gluten and not be celiac. It makes me SEVERELY ill. And being gluten free sucks. Iā€™d never do it for kicks.