An unpublished commenter, while noting that pulling the plug on research stymies getting answers, said he wasn't convinced of the long-term effectiveness and safety of the MRNA vaccines that got the COVID pandemic under control.
What's it going to take? It's been over four years, and people are not dying of being vaccinated. They're not suffering harm. Not even the worst medical grifters (cough, RF, Jr. and most of his appointees at the forefront, cough) have been able to point to any widespread ill effects. To date, it's one of the safest vaccines ever deployed. It's still fertile ground for the peddlers of misinformation and woo, but they'll sell you flying saucers and chemtrails, too, and surely you're not falling for that?
Everything you do can kill you. Traveling on the roads is remarkably dangerous, one of the worst risks most people will face. And every hot dog you eat, I'm told, robs the average person of 37 minutes of life. (Might as well go for the chopped onion and fancy mustard, then.)
In 2021, I wrote,
"You see, the U. S. is at something around two-thirds vaccinated by now. If the vaccines were doing horrible, horrible things to people, or if they do so in the future, that's over two hundred million Americans and the number is steadily increasing. Two hundred million pissed-off people is plenty more than you'd need to find enough ready to string up drug company executives and researchers along the side of the road, one per lamp post."
Ain't happened yet. Ain't gonna happen, either -- oh, it's not a hundred percent certain; nothing is. But it's one of the most solid bets you could make.
Update
7 months ago
3 comments:
Once again, if you are going to respond to a comment POST that comment so we know what they actually said. To not publish it is intellectually dishonest. You need to stop fearing honest debate.
The problem of the New Lysenkoism isn't so much the rejection of research into mRNA vaccines, but a wholesale rejection of the very scientific approach to medicine.
Which considering that a majority of people from all political sides have not the slightest clue what science actually is or how it works isn't too surprising.
A) Fuck you. This is my blog and I decide.
B) You have failed to consider that I'm trying to spare the commenter the embarrassment of openly falling for well-presented bullshit. He's a smart guy; one day, he may look up and realize he's been hoodwinked.
C) I'm not here to debate -- nor do I consider trying to coax someone back to reality a "debate," any more than arguing with a more extreme case, like a flat-earther or someone who thinks using a golden idol of a President as their online avatar is clever is a debate. It certainly cannot qualify as "honest debate" when the other side's position is a tissue of lies and misrepresentations. From time to time, I'll yell at idiots publicly; it's good exercise if not overdone. But it mustn't be done to excess -- and it's best not done at all if the person shows signs of being morally salvageable.
You are not.
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