Bottom Surveyor , I think you're partly on the right track, but way off base with your arguments
Well, it can't be both; if I'm "way off base with your arguments", I can't possibly be "partly on the right track".
I didn't watch the Youtube video you linked to, because it requires sign-in to watch. But from the context, I guess it's about the thalidomide scandal.
Yes, it's Thalidomide. Only I wouldn't call that a scandal; more like a tragedy. At least for the families involved; I don't think that even a single one of them feels that what happened to them was a "scandal".
To anyone who doesn't know about it, there are plenty of videos on YT about it. Just key in "Thalidomide children". More than 10 000 of them were born.
Your arguments against the Coronavirus vaccines remind me uncomfortably of anti-vax arguments.
Would you care to explain exactly how? What was it that I wrote, that "reminded" you of anti - vaxing?
This is a second time that someone is twisting what I have said and is ascribing to me something I have never written.
So far, people who are urging caution when it comes to receiving a new, hastily - made vaccine, have been told to "get education". Their arguments were called "crack pot theories", and now, those who are putting forward such views (backed up by stats & figures), even "anti - vaxers".
This is coming very close to personal attacks, and it could be argued that, indeed, that's what they are. Either way, it's a very bullish behaviour and it's totally uncalled for.
As someone who has received several vaccines, all of which worked perfectly, I am probably the last person who could be called "anti - vaxer".
At the same time, I don't feel like being used as anyone's Guinea pig. I even
accentuated in one of my previous posts that I will not be taking a vaccine in the
early stage:
Others who opt out (as I shall, in the early stages),
(Well, the word *early* in my original comment is in italic, and is therefore emphasized; here, it doesn't stand out as, when quoted, the entire txt appears in italic).
But to no avail; people are still ploughing on regardless with their insinucations and thin - vailed insults.
So, to anyone who wishes to reply to me in future: please be civil, stick with what I've said and disist from pejorative terms.
Yes, drugs & devices, not just vaccines, which is what the discussion is about.
But why are you looking to split hairs? I assume that to those who end(ed) up being harmed, it doesn't matter too much whether what harmed them was a dodgy vaccine, a drug, or a device.
So, you
are looking to split hairs. OK, at least we've established that.
But then again, you could be right; to the unfortunate ones who end up affected, it might really be terribly important whether it was a dodgy vaccine, a drug or a device that harmed them.
How many of the 4500 are vaccines? How many of the 139 are vaccines?
My previous comment to you (directly above) applies.