"There are a bunch of folks trying to save lives online and they’ve been banished from the mainstream sites. They say to do your own research and ask questions."
This sounds like my wife. While we're watching TV or while I'm trying to sleep, she keeps on typing, trying to encourage people to do just that. It's sad when the advice falls on deaf ears. Her friend got the Moderna vaccine and within a short time developed pain and weakness in her arms and legs that is preventing her from working. Her symptoms and initial labs sound like inflammatory polymyositis to me, something she would ordinarily be too young to develop. She didn't read the package insert with the shot and wasn't aware that she is part of a vaccine trial of an as yet unapproved therapy that only has emergency use authorization. Our son's mother-in-law read the insert and walked away without the jab. Thank God. Another friend has a relative in the hospital with some sort of brain issue two days after the vaccine (not sure of the exact issue or which vaccine).
My sister is the only one in my family to get vaccinated. She had one dose and then caught the virus along with my parents (in their 80's, my mom on oxygen prior to the illness) and her son and his wife. She seemed to be the least ill but, in the end, they all survived. My mom did spend five days in the hospital to receive remesdivir when she developed pneumonia, but everyone is back to normal now.
My parents have friends who have had both doses of the vaccine, but still won't hug or go to happy hour, even outdoors. Sad!
I'm glad that you and my wife are still trying. I had the energy for it once, with Ron Paul's campaigns and anti-war and end-the-fed protests, but I no longer have the enthusiasm to try to convince people who have taken "the blue pill". I hope that you and my wife can get through to a few people, who can take the message from there.
“It does not take a majority to prevail . . . but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
Samuel Adams