Vaccine side-effects: fatigue, soreness, youthful and lustrous skin.
I’m sure none of our readers need to be reminded of the many bizarre claims made by the anti-vax movement regarding the covid vaccine’s side-effects.
For two years now, a very straightforward matter of public safety has been turned into a fatuous debate, resulting in the proliferation of anti-scientific conspiracy theories that don’t bear repeating.
It is your humble Back Page correspondent’s opinion that the medical community has really missed a trick in its approach to this debate. Instead of playing down the severity of potential negative side effects with statistical evidence, they should have been playing up the potential positive side effects as a selling point.
In other words:
A great place to start would be recent claims that the covid vaccine cures warts. While still anecdotal at this stage, a significant number of people have noticed lifelong blemishes suddenly clearing up after their second dose or booster shot.
I have had two warts on my hands for the last 5 years. Tried wart off- they kept coming back. But in the two weeks since I had my booster shot (my first mRMA vaccine as my first two were AZ), they have disappeared completely. As in, you can’t even tell they were there.
— Erin Riley (@erinrileyau) January 9, 2022
According to The Seattle Times, so far only one report has linked the covid vaccine to wart disappearance (Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Oct. 26, 2021). But pending further study, it makes sense that by “stimulating the immune system”, the vaccine might lead to “activation against wart-causing viruses”.
Not that it really matters whether this phenomenon is statistically significant or not. A few claims on social media should be convincing enough for the average anti-vaxxer.
Anyway, it’s not like ivermectin or colloidal silver are exactly good for your skin.
If you see something spotty, say something to felicity@medicalrepublic.com.au
