re: #208 Targetpractice

There haven’t been any vaccines using mRNA rather than attenuated/dead viruses approved for public use before last year. Certainly not vaccines whose testing was measured in weeks/months and subject to emergency authorization.

It’s a miracle that such vaccines were even developed in less than a year, when most of the medical experts weren’t expecting one to be available for testing, let alone distribution before 2022. And even with these vaccines, those same experts predict that we probably won’t reach “normal” until 2022 if not 2023.

But please, tell me how I’m the asshole for suggesting that a headlong rush to achieve herd immunity, which sounds every bit as well thought out and reasoned as suggesting that we rush to reopen states to “save” the economy, might not be such a good idea.

How many people do you think should die from Covid to avoid hypothetical long term complications from vaccines based on what I’m guessing you are picking up from anti-vaccer websites?