Not so fast... fear / gauging safety isn’t strictly based on past experience, it’s also based on past inexperience.
The reason humans range from support of radical change to support of status quo when it comes to the known and unknown is a level of awareness that logic and experience can be defied for a better outcome in some situations.
Our level of scientific understanding during our lifetime may always be as that of those that believed that Earth was generally flat or those that had only just accepted that the Earth revolved around the Sun in what seemed to be a circle; both theories were and still may be held by some as truths, and perhaps to some benefit, but both are widely accepted to be incorrect now.
Fear is the mind-killer, but don’t confuse our innate questioning of what seems best and obvious to some for ignorant lack of acceptance of known truth. We can neither say there is no truth, nor that we know it, until we know it, and the jury is out about who knows it, except for those that believe in it being able to be known by someone.
> For both products, adverse events elevated in the vaccine arm of the trial included ..., lymphadenopathy, nausea, erythema, Bell’s palsy and appendicitis.
If those are the bad side effects of the two vaccines that didn’t make the cut yet, what about the two that did?
> Unlike DNA vaccines, mRNA vaccines do not have to cross the nuclear envelope, they pose no risk of genomic integration, and they work in both dividing and non-dividing cells.
This reads too much like a whitepaper / marketing material.
Of course mRNA doesn’t cross the nuclear envelope. It doesn’t mean that it’s not a potential danger to the cells, though.
I’m not anti-vax. But, I don’t want to gloss over the danger with vaccines that were fast-tracked and now will be given to a few billion people.
What could go wrong? Lots, but if we don’t take it, that could be much worse.
The reason humans range from support of radical change to support of status quo when it comes to the known and unknown is a level of awareness that logic and experience can be defied for a better outcome in some situations.
Our level of scientific understanding during our lifetime may always be as that of those that believed that Earth was generally flat or those that had only just accepted that the Earth revolved around the Sun in what seemed to be a circle; both theories were and still may be held by some as truths, and perhaps to some benefit, but both are widely accepted to be incorrect now.
Fear is the mind-killer, but don’t confuse our innate questioning of what seems best and obvious to some for ignorant lack of acceptance of known truth. We can neither say there is no truth, nor that we know it, until we know it, and the jury is out about who knows it, except for those that believe in it being able to be known by someone.