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by parkingrift 1618 days ago
> This is all going to take years to sort out and figure out what’s real and what’s not.

This is usually sorted out before mass vaccination. We rolled out completely novel technologies and skipped the medium and long term safety steps.

If these negative outcomes turn out to be true, there will be no going back from this. The future of mRNA will be circling the drain, and vaccination in general may go down with it. Distrust in science and government will soar and it may take decades to fix.
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perlgeek 1618 days ago
> If these negative outcomes turn out to be true, there will be no going back from this.

I really hope that we can have a sensible discussion about safety and relative risks with 90% of the population.

(Naive, I know...)

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parkingrift 1618 days ago
That seems incredibly unlikely. People who have been hesitant to get the vaccine have been mocked and ridiculed for months. I honestly can’t even imagine what will happen if it turns out that they were right to be hesitant.

There are no caveats to all the statements that the vaccines are safe and effective.

Speaking personally, they’ll need to do an amazing job quantifying the risks and performing further long-term studies before I would consider an additional booster shot.

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