| > Typically we would have tested this for a long time to see this effect (which is not unknown in the immunology community) but for some reason "we didn't have the time" and we rushed it into millions (billions?) of people Well, in all fairness, the "some reason"s were thousands people dying _every day_ in western countries, overloading health systems. Anyone playing the "let's wait two more years, just to be sure" card had a _very_ hard sell. To follow your analogy, this is probably a situation where there is vastly more wrong decisions to make, and the right ones require the benefits of 20/20 insight, which, well, GPT-42, maybe ? To roughly quote a former PM from that period: "my job these days is to arbitrage between bad decisions". This is were the scientific method of searching for the truth clashes with the politics of managing a human society. Not a particularly new debate, I suppose... For "laughs" : I almost wish we'd go the complete opposite road next time, keeping the vaxxes in the lab as long a possible, just to see the opposition parties everywhere spread conspiracy theories about the "secret vaccine that the government does not want you to take", etc... Just, for a change. |