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by monkeynotes 2021 days ago
What crazy logic is this? You are saying one needs to have evidence of risk in order to ask if there is any evidence of risk.

What is wrong with people when simply asking about negative impacts of a rushed vaccine is considered a worthless distraction.

I thought the audience of hacker news users would also be curious, inquisitive folk.
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SlateBlate 2021 days ago
Yeah, I'm quite surprised too.

I've been lurking here for at least 10 years and consider this to be the best place to discuss everything openly. But this sensivity to question anything related to vaccine is beyond ridiculous. Even asking what the side effects are like OP did gets you downvoted.

And by the way, I will take the vaccine asap because of my health issues, but this doesn't mean we can't even ask questions about it.

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monkeynotes 2021 days ago
I have no objection to taking the vaccine but being as informed as you possibly can about your short and long-term health is surely important. After all this crisis is about health, we are clearly concerned with our health so why does this not extend to concern around a rapidly developed vaccine that you are going to put in your body?

Humans err all the time, why is this an exception? Why is no one here skeptical, or at least curious? Why is critical thinking set aside?

Science is now relative. Not only do we have mass misinformation but the side effect is an overreaction seeing intelligent thinkers reject their principles in order to put as much distance as possible between them and the perceived thought cancer.

What we are witnessing is compulsory hard-line. Where will you be when the mob comes after your curiosity? How many friends will you lose, how many thoughts of your own will you be free to have?

I really don't get how everyone is ok with ushering in what would otherwise be seen as dystopia. And don't compare this to a war. Wars are to preserve freedom and our principles. This war is the complete opposite. We have given up on free thinking, western values are out the window, right or wrong, but make no mistake this is the reality and we should at least acknowledge it as such.

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