Until a vaccine has complete testing it's hard to know that it's even that effective, or worse that it doesn't make getting the virus much worse.
A vaccine would be great, but it's gotta be fully tested first. Cause it's gonna be given to a LOT of people so it wouldn't have to have particularly common side effects to wind up doing more harm than good.
So why aren't reports about vaccines backfiring happening in China, Russia?
It's because they are targeting who they give the vaccine to, i.e. otherwise healthy workers i.e. military personnel and other people who will invariably come in face to face contact with others.
It's because if it got to phase 3 it's good enough for me. I truly believe that. Someone had to sign up just to get it through the first two stages. I signed up to be in the early stages, I don't care. I would rather have a chance at beating this than getting exposed to it over and over again.
US has no other solution here because mask mandates don't work because cops are lazy, or people simply don't care. Imagine how many people don't use condoms, well know you know approximately who will and won't wear a condom.
Covid-19 can infect and kill someone rather rapidly which is terrifying vs. other pandemics we have had i.e. HIV, TB, Hep C where it is a slow, drawn out process.
I can't imagine why people think it needs FDA approval. Cigarettes have FDA approval, remember? They're not good for you. What it needs is general consensus from the scientific community about its benefits. I believe we already have enough to go off of given that it's in the third phase for otherwise healthy people going into rising covid-19 levels, and influenza during the winter with states DESPERATELY trying to re-open (i.e. interpret this as a positive feedback loop of exponentially growing cases).
I want something, now. I don't want to be stuck in the hallway of a hospital waiting for a bed, dying of the plague. We've come quite far scientifically with vaccines, I trust the mRNA vaccine, I wouldn't mind a live virus vaccine either but I think mRNA is the clear winner (I believe Moderna is making it).
There's a reason crappier countries i.e. China and Russia are handling this better and already are pushing out a vaccine, and it's not using their people like guinea pigs. They easily could have put massively large amounts of their own citizens on phase 1 trials but Russia got a vaccine approved with only 80 test subjects (which is indeed bad, needs more testing obviously).
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