Anybody Want £3,500?

[ladybirder]

Who's up for it?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8090761/Get-PAID-coronavirus-Scientists-London-pay-volunteers-3-500-develop-vaccine.html

[ladybirder]

No putting your MiL's up for it!

[SlackAlice]

I think I'll pass ☺☺☺

[Khandro]

May one make suggestions!

[TheDevil]

If you're getting paid to volunteer then isn't that just a job?

3.5k to get the new pandemic and people are worried about randomly catching it? It seems pretty rare so much so that they'll pay ya 3.5k just to have it.

[Cloverjo]

If I were young and skint I’d consider it. I think they prefer to have men for things like this.

[ladybirder]

That's my thoughts on it Clover. If I was young, healthy and skint I would certainly consider it.

[emmie]

not a chance..

[bookbinder]

Erm, sorry, but I have to catch up with my garden tidyup.

[jno]

no, sorry, I'm going to be washing my hair that day.

[marval]

No thank you, not for me.

[Bazile]

Even if i was skint , one thing that would scare me would be , if they got the dosage wrong

[bookbinder]

If someone offers me all that dough
To catch a virus, I'll say 'no'.
I'm fond of living, so there's no doubt
That those nice folks should count me out.

[Bazile]

bookbinder
You could be a bit kinder
Now they'll have to finder
Another signer

( well its late in the day 0)

[bookbinder]

Bazile, you've definitely got talent! Even if it is late in the day!

[Bazile]

i won't give up my day job :-)

[Old_Geezer]

Make it per hour and I'll consider it.

[Ken4155]

Easy money for someone young, healthy and boracic. It would appeal to some students, I would think.

So I said to Miley Cyrus
"I think you have the virus."
She said, "You are wrong."
Then stuck out her tongue.
Which looked okay to me but i'm not a doctor so I couldn't be sure.

[ladybirder]

Brilliant answers making me smile. Thank you. I'll have to choose a BA for one soon.

[Buenchico]

Am I the only person here who would happily volunteer for the trial (if my age, my pre-existing medial problems and my medication for such conditions didn't prevent it)?

If you're given a 'weakened' version of a virus then, even if the vaccine that's being trialled doesn't work, your body will develop its own antibodies which will leave you immune to the 'full' version of the virus. (That's the way that the MMR vaccine works. It's the way that the chickenpox vaccine works and it's the way that several 'foreign travel' vaccines, such as that for yellow fever, work).

So, while everyone else in the country might be at risk of getting hit by 'full blown' COVID-19 symptoms, those volunteering for the trial can only develop very minor symptoms or, if the vaccine works, none at all.

Therefore, even without any payment at all, volunteering for the trial would seem to be an excellent idea. The three-and-a-half grand is just a nice little bonus ;-)

[clyde59]

Yeah me cheltenham starts tomorrow.