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by dpc_pw 2047 days ago
What would you expect from a crowd of people who routinely test their code in production "because run fast, break things, yada yada". :D

"I've run my unit test 10 times and it always passes! Rock-solid. Deploy to prod! Why do you want to waste our time executing it on staging env?! What are you, some kind of a unit-test denier?! There's a production issue affecting customers, there's no time for that. Anything goes wrong, we're just restore the prod DB from the last good backup."

The way I see it... if the vaccine creates some long lasting complications in 0.1% of people who took it, than it is not going to be much better than the disease itself, given that it shifts the problems from the older population to the younger one. This wouldn't be a problem if the vaccine was rolled out at a normal pace with plenty of controls to figure out any issues and put breaks on it if any unexpected problems were detected.

But it looks like the crowd is already set on mass delivering it ASAP, starting with the kids. So, oh well... YOLO.

BTW. Funny how "big oil" and "big tabaco" "evil, greedy, corrupting science", but "big pharma" ... "real scientists! our noble saviors that can do no wrong, and make no mistakes motivated by financial gain".

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I don't believe any of the trials have included children so far, so not sure why you'd say "starting with kids"
Yeah, sorry. That's just a bit of unwarranted speculation because I've just seen something like this: https://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-could-go-to-ch...