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I was completely against the vaccine but changed my mind after doing my own research. Everyone should do the same.
“When I saw the data, the whole risk of the vaccine just went completely down in my mind. It’s basically harmless,” Tom Shaw, 30, said.
As told to Elle Hardy
I had all my vaccines growing up, but when I was about 16 I got into the natural-health scene through the book “Fast Food Nation,” which talked about the unhygienic handling of meat in the American food supply.
It started with vegetarianism and made me feel like I had some special insider knowledge. From there, I got into fasting, detoxification, sunlight, walking barefoot, and so on. Through that, I developed a general mistrust of the medical community.
Late last year, somebody in our extended family got COVID-19 really bad and ended up with permanent lung and heart damage. Still, when the COVID-19 shot came out, I was very anti-vaccines.
I thought they were unnecessary. I’m young and fairly healthy, so the odds of me getting COVID-19 and dying are ridiculously low.
