@Pezevenk @TheOneTrueChapo and @ClimateChangeAnxiety

:chavez-salute:

every time I see anti-vaxx shit posted here at least one of you is already in the comments, fighting the good fight.

@admins please reconsider chapo's site-wide tolerance of anti-vaxx/vaccine-skeptical/vaccine-hesitant rhetoric

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Alright, uh... What's your take on all this? Just an overall perspective on the concerns.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Someone posted an article with lots of more specific concerns: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/12/an-internal-medicine-doctor-and-his-peers-read-the-pfizer-vaccine-study-and-see-red-flags.html

          From what I read, there were some pretty big oversights (for instance talking about exclusion criteria being hard to find which... I found by 10 secs of googling) by the author but also some points that seemed valid.

    • cadence [they/them,she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I have all my vaccines but I'm a little concerned about this one because of the unbelievable profit motive for the company that can get anything to market.

      This vaccine has been consuming the media for an entire year. Every single day we hear about it. Every single day we feel its impacts. The world wants a "return to normal". The world wants a vaccine. The world will pay dearly to the first company that can sell one.

      I will almost certainly get the covid vaccine when I can, since from the (little) I've heard there's not that much to worry about. But I am still worried about the immense pressure for companies to get something out, and get stupidly fucking rich, even if it has problems.

      I'd love to hear your take on this.

      • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        There's only ever been one vaccine that showed side effects later than 2 months, and it was a live vaccine. Put simply, there is no chance that there are unknown major side effects.

        Yes, it's true that there is a profit motive, but given the high number of vaccine candidates, the government doesn't have that much of an incentive to approve vaccines that haven't been done right. The fact that the AstraZeneca vaccine wasn't approved yet bodes well.