I'm wondering how you can link this with a straight face, when a few pages ago you were shutting down anybody trying to imply vaccines are risky....
This position, for which you vehemently argued just a short while ago, seems to be in serious conflict with this you are underlining now. As the question was asked of you, 'how do you know?'
I would not dismiss this question as ontological trivia. Even further, I'd dare ask, 'What is it that you believe you know?'
Not to speak for Joe, but I don't understand how the news post he linked conflicts with what he'd said earlier. (Not that there's anything wrong with having multiple simultaneous conflicting ideas :))
1. "...a lack of evidence that any significant number of the 2 billion people who have received them are dropping like flies..."
2. "Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated"
How do those conflict? It sounds like you're arguing with your own imagined version of what Joe said, not what he actually said. The news post sounds like evidence of exactly the kinda stuff everyone here talks about all the time, like that the vaccines weaken your immune system..As far as I can tell it has nothing to do with large numbers of people suddenly dropping dead..
Ok, I went back and reread the post you quoted, I think I can see where you're coming from... Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like when Joe said
"The evidence that vaccines are safe is, for me, available in the form of a lack of evidence that any significant number of the 2 billion people who have received them are dropping like flies and the bulldozers are hard at work.", you interpreted that as him saying
"I believe vaccines are safe".. (Fair enough, he said "vaccines are safe", but those words were specifically in the context of a reply to your post)... I interepreted it as
"There isn't any evidence that huge numbers of vaccinated people are dropping dead. Therefore, statistically, it seems most likely you'll be fine if you have to get it".. He did NOT say that nothing bad ever happens to anyone, or that anyone should go out and get injected (I'm pretty sure absolutely nobody here is saying that). It seems to me like you read his words "The evidence that vaccines are safe.." and jumped to a conclusion without reading the rest.
Sorry if that's a bit pedantic. Just been surprised to see some people seemingly interpreting what others here have said as meaning "the vaccines are fine actually", when I've seen nothing of the sort. Hmm maybe it's me who's wrong and I've stumbled into a PRO VAXX CONSPIRACY FORUM