| My unpopular opinion, as someone who worked in vaccine development and biotech manufacturing for a lengthy portion of my career, is that: - vaccination should be a personal choice... no one has the right to compel anyone to get injected with anything. Full stop. AND - we need to raise the level of scientific and medical rigor applied to vaccine development, manufacturing, vaccine administration, and ongoing monitoring / pharmacovigilance so that people will feel comfortable taking vaccines. The fact is that different quality and risk/benefit rules are applied to vaccines versus other injected drugs and this is not okay (read up on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed on 1986, why it was passed, and how vaccines are tested for efficacy and safety versus other injected drugs). Under normal circumstances, the COVID mRNA vaccines should have failed the clinical trial requirements for human safety. There were far too many adverse events in the clinical trials and many, many people were harmed by these mRNA vaccines (with quite a few deaths). The NIH & FDA largely swept this under the rug and refused to investigate or fund adequate investigation. Unfortunately, that entire episode has seriously harmed people's faith in the government and has negatively influenced people opinions on vaccine safety. This is very disappointing because there are a lot of highly effective vaccines with excellent safety profiles when administered properly... vaccines almost everyone should receive. But the average citizen can't tell the difference and I don't blame them if they don't trust the government to protect them at the moment. |
Did all the other governments in the world that approved the covid vaccines collude with the NIH and FDA or is there maybe another reason that (almost?) all countries approved at least some of the vaccines?
> has seriously harmed people's faith in the government
which government out of the 195+ different ones that we have in the world? is there a chance that a pandemic and subsequent global health crisis is something that's a little bit bigger than the partisan politics of a single country?