I have some sympathy for Khandro’s position – he, having been given a vaccine that has not undergone the normal screening process to ensure the risks have been adequately assessed, and then soon after suffering quite serious negative health issues.
Some years ago a relative’s son was given the MMR jab and shortly thereafter he developed quite debilitating autism. This could have been coincidence, and certainly that is the view of health officials.
But there seems to me to be a lack of transparency over these things; if the total number of children who develop autism over the period of a year is published together with the number of children who develop autism with a short period of being given the MMR jab, even I could work out whether there was a causal link.
Part of the reason for the lack of transparency is that where there is a known link, then those few unfortunately affected by the vaccines can claim compensation – so it is in the authorities interest to keep quiet.
With regards the covid vaccine, the benefit of preventing large scale loss of life outweighed the few that have suffered adverse side-effects – I’m not even sure that the authorities are keeping close tabs on this.