I blame this on the hysteria instigated by MAGA, and the overreactions of the CDC and medical and pharmaceutical institutions, etc
All medications have some side effects.
At least 270,227,181 people or 81% of the population have received at least one dose.
Thousands of adverse effects out of 270 million people vaccinated isn't a surprising number for the vaccines that were created in an extremely rapid timeframe. A lot of people were dying, lest we forget the corpses kept in refrigerated trucks at hospitals in large cities and ER that were overwhelmed with the sick.
Don't you think the medical establishment and the public health system wish it were different? Do you think people go into medicine to harm their patients?
I say the problem is that the public believes that no harm should come to them by a disease or by a medical intervention. There are no guarantees.
Vaccines are an intervention where the benefits outweigh the risks. It is an intervention designed for the masses, not for an individual.
Covid may not be virulent for many people, but for some it was devastating. My partner's friend got sick in April of 2020, before there was a vaccine. He was not obese, in fact, quite slim and was a lifetime cross country runner. He went out for a 20 mile run just a day or two before he started feeling sick. He was hospitalized for months. He's had long covid and been sick on and off for more than 4 years now. In December he couldn't even walk. Since then he's feels a little better and describes his walk as "waddling". A man that could easily run 20 miles without much effort.
I personally know 2 people who died of Covid, both were unvaccinated.
It's extremely unfortunate that people have negative side effects of vaccines. I think the scientists are looking at all the data. It takes a while to figure out what is actually going wrong.
However, more lives were saved than harmed by the vaccines...by a huge factor.