Every person you know.

Anecdotes are worthless in a scientific setting, or literally any setting with the slightest amount of rigor. More often than not, we do not have anywhere near a representative sample in the people we know or hang around.

I got the Moderna vaccine in May 2021 and a booster in December that year.

The first time I got Covid was a year later, December 2022. Exactly as predicted by the vaccinations.

I don’t go around pretending that this anecdote is worth anything. That’s why companies like Moderna do clinical trials with 30,000 people.

Somehow lots of people whose experiences are slightly outside the median are convinced that everything is a lie. “Statistics are hard, let’s go shopping?”