This is anecdotal, but my wife’s girlfriend also married a GI and he took her back to NJ. They had a child and the doctors said “take all these shots”. They did, the baby became a basic vegetable. I never forgot that.
The problem with all these vaccines is that the manufacturers are given immunity once it is approved by the government - and trying to get the government to admit anything it doesn’t want to is a Herculean task, at best.
What use to scare the dickens out of me was when the nurse presented you with a paper and a government phone number in case there was a vaccine “negative reaction”. In short, you are right, Gaffer. The vaccine companies have no responsibilities and if there is some sort of horrible reactions.. you deal with the government. What they do.. I don’t know. I sort of assumed they kept the “stats” and gave the parent information on how to deal with a child that wasn’t the same (that is just an assumption though)