i love how the study is still being conducted in live play by play action, but they're really safe and effective and i should run and get some shots today
What we are currently experiencing ARE the trials. Those trials dont end until 2022-23, if I am not mistaken. Whether it is being let on or not exactly what trials are going on and where, it is safe to say the biggest portion of data they will obtain from these vaccines will be from the worldwide population who have taken it while it was still under emergency legislation and therefore not approved (only authorized through said emergency legislation). So, it is a huge experiment, which is pretty conveninent how they managed to pull it all off while a global medical emergency was under way.
You would NEVER be able to experiment on the sheer millions who have been tested under normal circumstances. And the reason is because people die and they get injured and our medical system primarily is based on doing no harm and vigorously testing drugs before they end up among the mass population.
There is no evidence to suggest they are safe. That is because there hasnt been enough time between vaccination and after vaccination to ascertain a prolonged assesment of the effects. Newspaper articles saying they are safe at this point is like saying I can read the future and tell you what 2050 will look like without a shade of error. We can look at data but the data is applicable to NOW and not LONG TERM and that is how we determine how safe drugs are. People miscontrue what safe means and this has been amplified by propaganda campaigns to mould peoples perceptions of what safety actually means. They consider safe still being alive, which is very naive and dangerous. You can have undiagnosed cancer and still be alive, at least for now. You can have underlying health conditions that affect your day-to-day life but so long as death is ruled out those health conditions are not significant. Try saying that to the hundreds of millions of patients on long term medication for illnesses that have changed their lives. When you take medication long term in any scenario, that itself is life changing and not indicative of recovery and good health. It is to be truthful, the opposite. Only we gloss this over and choose to deny and repress the reality of illness and focus on the meds because meds "fix" things. Obviously not otherwise most of our ailments would be curable but many are only treated and not cured. They never go away, they just get hidden under our medication regimen.
With these vaccines, the same realities have to be acknowledged. These are not wonder drugs. We have never been able to beat the flu and never likely will. We have never been able to beat many illnesses, diseases, ailments etc and this is likely to be the case for a very long time. Nothing is being cured here. And that was never the plan. So what about the rational and empirical debate about the realities of drugs and their short and long term effects on the population? What about the REAL side effects? The damage done to peoples lives, to society, economy, future generations?
The argument is its worth the risk but this removes any sort of rational conversation. We said going to war in Iraq was a risk worth taking, Afghanistan too. We said demonizing and persecuting homosexuals, black people, women, disabled people, ethnic minorities was worth the risk. You dont need to look back at how enthusiastic we were to support these then current political narratives. Look at us now. You are now a criminal if you support any of the above. Society is fickle. We want everybodys toys in the sand pit until one day we wake up and nobody wants to play with us anymore. Now suddenly we are friends with everybody we hurt until its acceptable to abuse them again. Anything that seems appropriate given enough evidence (viable or not, mostly groupthink in my opinion as is rife among establishments, corporations, academia and the like) is encouraged. Until we stand corrected.
So why do we keep doing those things?
Moreover, why make such a rash decision over something incredibly important (the health and wellbeing of yourself) based on what seems appropriate now. Flogging black men was appropriate a few hundred years ago. Shall we restart that trend? Oh but its appropriate and I can prove it based on contrived evidence to support my doing it. But we know the consequences but at the same time, reality has changed so that makes it okay? And you follow the same logic with your own body?
Speaks volumes about how damage Western society is, but we have known this for a long time. It has been a topic at the table of some of the brightest thinkers we have known and our impending suffering has been chartered out long before our current times.
