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I watched an interview with an individual who after receiving a tetanus shot developed transverse myelitis. His immune system started destroying his spinal cord. He was young, healthy, athletic, and had previously received tetanus shots without issue. He is now wheel chair bound, can barely move and is in intense pain 24/7. The injection caused every muscle in his body to spasm causing unbearable pain.

One big question about this for me is wondering if any group is looking for why this happened. I feel that either the pharmaceutical company or the government should be spending significant research dollars understanding what happened in this case.

It also shows that vaccines are not 100% safe, which seems to be the general narrative. When the truth maybe something more like you have a 1 in 10 million chance of living the rest of your life in agony, but you are required to accept the risk for the good of everyone.

So maybe collecting the blood markers suggested by the parent poster would be a step in understanding why things go so badly for some people.



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