The amount of antivax shit that floats around in a supposedly well informed community such as this is nauseating.

Makes me lose my faith in humanity a bit every time I read it.

Believing HN to be a "supposedly well informed community" is irrational. I didn't have to fill out any test to join.

It's just orange reddit

I like to think there’s better self-selection and moderation here, but I’ve been prone to self-delusion before.

Remember when the authorities pulled the JnJ vaccine due to adverse events after it was administered to millions of people? It seems some caution was warranted, no?

If you mean in the US, a huge amount of caution was taken, as it's always the case. Vaccine approval are among the most rigorous processes we have.

J&J and AstraZeneca were vastly safer than catching COVID. The FDA later switched to mRNA-based ones, which are also extremely safe.

I'm being asked on a regular basis by various health practitioners (pretty much on every visit) if I ever had uneven or elevated heart rate after my covid shots (I had), then they take note which specific vaccine brand I had. So - adjust your priors ;-)

I have, one of the few positives side effects of the pandemic is realizing how terrible most health professionals are.

“They are a doctor” comes with a whole different set of priors to me now.

It's not a common side effect of the vaccine though. It definitely is a relatively common side effect of actually catching the disease itself though.