I was a captive audience to someone talking about how some countries only had access to China’s vaccine. They said the vaccine was terrible and people took it and still got COVID.
But like… I took American vaccines and still got COVID…
…and over a million people in the US died of COVID, some of whom where vaccinated with US subsidized, corporate vaccines.
It was brought up because others were talking about global inequality during the pandemic. So having to take the subpar sinovac was apparently all part of global inequalities.
I hate talking about COVID and I feel like it’s so distracting and people try to make everything about COVID because it’s so easy to do. Maybe that is just a hot take but this argument that sinovac sucks because people still contracted COVID is at best a really lazy way to try to say US vaccines are better.
Also the same person implied masking prevents people from contracting the virus… instead of preventing you from spreading it to others like was repeated ad nasium by medical representatives for 2 years straight.
In my global south home, my wife was only offered the Astra Zeneca vaccine after most European nations had banned it for under 50s/60s due to high risk of side affects - she’s a couple of decades younger than those cut offs.
She’s had some heart issues subsequently and while we can’t prove it was due to the vaccine the doubt remains - not that we could sue or anything since all manufacturers were given immunity to lawsuits for the vaccines.
Her parents and one of our children were assigned sinovac and have had no issues. I got one of the more prestigious western vaccines while travelling in the USA. We’ve all had covid subsequent to the vaccination, but my wife is the one who really suffers through it while for the rest of us it’s been mild. This is just anecdotal but the general consensus here is that those who got sinovac did not suffer as much as those getting European rejects.
Yes global inequality is a real thing but that’s no excuse for dumb china bad takes.