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by anoonmoose 1739 days ago
What exactly is your point? Do you think the Thalidomide saga from seventy years ago is a good reason not to take a new vaccine? Or do you just think being able to name a single drug (that was net accepted by the FDA at the time) means we should be skeptical of all drugs?

I understand that I asked for a drug that had later side effects and you provided one. But, I do not think what happened with Thalidomide is a good reason not to take this vaccine...I'm not even sure if you do.
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ycombinete 1734 days ago
I already made my point. That, if I have a choice, I’d mildly prefer to wait a few years before taking a new type of medicine.

I’m taking my second dose of Pfizer tomorrow (I explained the expedience of this in my first comment). I’m not some frothy anti-vaxxer. I just have a preference for tried and tested methods over the cutting edge.

I also don’t sign up to beta software when there’s a stable or LTS release that meets my needs.

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anoonmoose 1734 days ago
Ok but it seems like your reason for mild preference is at least partially based off of a saga involving a drug from seventy years ago that wasn't even approved by the FDA at the time of the saga

I don't base my feelings about deploying Linux today on my experiences with getting Gentoo to work on randomly cobbled together hardware with no network connection in the early 2000s

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ycombinete 1734 days ago
No. I’ve probably been unclear. Please forget thalidomide. Thalidomide was just an example. Everything needed to understand my position is contained in the post you just replied to.
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anoonmoose 1733 days ago
You've only been unclear on /why/ you hold your position.

>I also don’t sign up to beta software when there’s a stable or LTS release that meets my needs.

This makes sense to me! I've had issues with beta software before. I think there is evidence for this position, with regards to software running on systems that need to have good uptime numbers.

What I'm trying to figure out is why you hold that position with regards to medicine. When asked for an example, you provided one that I don't think makes the case. Like I said, I understand your position, I don't understand why you hold it.

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