I suppose they could be long delayed deaths, which would be easier to mask.

It would be brilliant if everyone ended up dying 1 minute before he otherwise would. Then the vaccine would have a 100% death rate and no one would ever find out.

In all seriousness though, there were a lot of exaggerations over just how badly things might play out. Not just describing Impossible here, but people I know personally.

Basically everyone exaggerated. The pro-side kept claiming they were completely safe and what not, and the anti-side was scared of worse than what ultimately ended up happening.

I mostly just anticipated a fair bit of risk for potentially long-term negative effects in... I dunno, some small to moderate percentage of the population?

That was my worry as well. Especially if it is true that the spike protein can remain in your body for a longer period of time than the two weeks initially claimed.

I still wouldn't really jump to conclusions of malicious and deliberate attempts or goals though, or at least nothing beyond basic greed, laziness, and incompetence.

Those things can be assumed, yes. I mostly disagreed with those deliberate attempts claimed by him. That doesn't benefit "them" in any way! He just reads some crazy stuff by crazy feminists and then projects those ideas on every woman he sees, so he's terrified to go through life. I've told him that even the craziest feminists don't want to kill their sons, brothers, fathers (well, many do want to kill their fathers...) - so this makes little sense, but obviously, it has no effect.

Maybe the worst long-term consequence is really the level of state and corporate sponsored control that has been employed across the board. And almost no consequences to those who would push for extreme and dystopian measures.

Precisely. There was just an article on the WEF website about the lessons of corona lockdowns for "climate" nonsense.