As with wissie just once we may have an agreed opinion

Nope. Still by killing the mink now saves them suffering longer than needed I suppose

Edited by Spiderman (09 Nov 2020 7.41pm)

Someone here never turns down the injection of a little pr1ck.

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

COYP

Did you ever research how long the side effects of new drugs take to show up? They said DDT and Thalidomide was safe, but years later discovered they were wrong. I realise you are fairly young, so probably have never seen anybody suffering the effect of Thalidomide. I was in a school class with two victims of the drug. Neither of them seemed to be bothered by it at the time, but we were kids. I imagine their lives were not as blessed as yours.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

Yes, one in my class too, it was terrible that drug was allowed to be used and it must have caused an unbelievable amount of misery for those unfortunate enough to be born with the disabilities it caused.

I realise that the understanding of medicine has moved on but will they truly know what effect this vaccine may have now or in the future given the timescale they have rushed it through in.

Above and beyond all else, it's of course POSITIVE that this vaccine appears to be so effective. It may well save millions of lives. If the safety results are equally positive and it's offered first and foremost to those at serious risk of covid anyway, then that would seem like a sensible way to move forward.

I fear that some have found themselves into such a nay saying space that they're almost annoyed at the apparent success at the vaccine. Of course if it had been ineffective then the approach would've been how people were fools for holding out hope for an effective vaccine to begin with. Sitting on the sidelines sniping at both efforts of individuals and the scientific community to make a meaningful difference to the trajectory of a pandemic.

I fully understand the 'wait and see' attitude, and would never support any effort to twist anyones arm to have a vaccine, but people should mentally be able to both hold concerns but also see that potentially this is a development that it to be applauded.