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the-new-style 46 points ago +46 / -0

It took over 30 years to associate DES with birth defects because it affected the puberty of children of DES prescribed pregnant mothers, of which there were 3 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_defects_of_diethylstilbestrol

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Isolated_Patriot 40 points ago +40 / -0

Right, "six-months to a year" is a hyper conservative estimate assuming an extremely obvious drop in fertility like 80-90% increase in miscarriage's or something.

If it's something much less obvious, it could take half a generation or more (but also would not achieve their goals).

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Raposa 38 points ago +38 / -0

This is what doesn't register with a lot of people. My brothers, sister and her husband, nephew's mom, everyone is getting different ones and comparing the immediate side effects. "Oh I felt like crap for a night/2 nights but fine now" and they're finally living normally not worrying. Like the only thing on their mind is the immediate effects, not even a year, a decade or more down the line. The only silver lining is people getting them finally acting normal again instead of being paranoid, but they didn't need the vaccine to do that, they just think they did. Sister never wanted kids and nephew's mom never planning to have more, but she was trying to talk me into getting it. She knows I want babies in the next 5 years. They're just 100% convinced nothing could go wrong. Hope they're right, for their sake. Cannot lose family members to this BS.

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ProudlyConservative 28 points ago +28 / -0

Do not get that shot, especially since you want to have children.