Shedding Hysteria

I see this shedding from the vaccinated thing as a product of tribal psychology, as the vaccinated saw and still see the unvaccinated as diseased infectious vermin, there is an attempt to reflect this back at them, a very juvenile "no, you!" impulse in the consciousness. So working backwards from this Covid vaccine shedding begins to fortify itself, not as a meaningfully real phenomenon but as a narrative device, a comeback, a reply to the attitudes of the vaccinated toward the unvaccinated.

What tends to happen repeatedly in these spaces is there is some popular misconception in the anti-vax masses, such as the distorted conception of shedding as it appears in the minds of this population, and playing into this with something mimicking a scientific explanation rewards whoever says such things with huge amounts of attention.

Is mRNA and spike protein found to persist in the blood stream, lymph nodes, breastmilk of vaccination populations? Yes, in various contexts under various conditions, and these have all been shown to have negative effects on health. All these effects are qualitatively real, but quantitatively in terms of mRNA and spike infecting the unvaccinated, I think these effects are small and rare, and certainly not what is being portrayed by some.

Consider, if shedding was meaningfully real on a mass scale, the effects of vaccine shedding on the unvaccinated would have already been observable during mass vaccination and peaked, given the enormous amount of doses that were given over a short amount of time coming up to nearly a year ago now. So to bring this up now is odd to me, and seems more like a function of attention seeking to rescue the waning fame that came with speaking out about the pandemic than about honestly reporting important breaking information.

I say this because what is happening now is often for example some novel case report comes in of someone's eyeball exploding due to some elaborate spike protein related mechanism, and various characters will then hop on a podcast and very performatively and grimly report that yes indeed, the vaccine is now exploding eyeballs, this is confirmed, they don't want you to know this, this could be happening up and down the nation, it's over. This sort of thing is happening with increasing frequency as these various characters struggle to grapple with the death spiral of people tuning out, I don't think this is productive I think this just distorts reality in the minds of the people whose attention you've captured. Avoid the vaccine yes, avoid the vaccinated themselves? Although many are insufferable, I don't think I would worry about avoiding them for health reasons. Regardless, what I have seen recently on shedding is a cocktail of half-truths, real studies used to justify exaggerated conclusions.

This is not meant to deny the existence of shedding entirely, just to highlight that these online communities are highly susceptible to ratchet effects and feedback loops, where things can only escalate and never reverse, there is no negative regulation or mediation, there are no clarifications made or errors corrected, each horror can only build on former horrors as people detach themselves from what is real, to correct a misconception that plays into this psychology is frowned upon. This is a function of thousands of inflammed amygdalas in a box rather than an evolving journey toward uncovering the truth or any reflection of reality.

Shedding is very real-- it almost killed me.... For 3 days I could hardly move. Somehow there was a miracle & on 4th day I began to recover. I think I know who shed it on me & he had the Moderna..