Are We Going To Be Guinea Pigs?

[smurfchops]

Why are we going to have the Covid Vaccine before any other country? Do they want to see the side effects before,they accept it ??

[Peter Pedant]

whoops yes missed that strep I mean

if you look at the graphs - the TB numbers fall off a cliff at its introduction in 1948 - it really was a wonder drug

[AuntPollyGrey]

Chrissa // For God’s sake, APG I was born in 1950 and had polio injections, smallpox injections etc etc. My father had tuberculosis ,which I caught from him. I was lucky enough to have the drug Streptomycin which tasted vile but, stopped me from becoming ill from the disease.

We have moved on so much since the 50s and 60s, why start doubting this new wonder drug?//

The new wonder drug that has been rushed forward out of desperation. I will probably be offered it due to being clinically vulnerable, but as I've had the virus, I probably will decline the vaccine until I see a) if it works and b) how long it gives immunity.

[woofgang]

well every refusenik who is ahead of me moves me further up the queue so many thanks APG

[Mozz71]

When push comes to shove, no one is forcing anyone to take the vaccine. If you don't want it, don't have it. Just don't complain if the worst foes happen to you as a result.

[emmie]

i can't believe a friend of mine didn't get her child immunised for chicken pox, and is only now considering it. The child is now 8...

[emmie]

i guess one must do what thinks is right, this covid 19 has divided people that's for sure.

[AuntPollyGrey]

The only thing my children were immunised against was Polio and Tetanus.

[emmie]

chicken pox can be awful as a child and worse as an adult.

[weecalf]

Maybe just maybe there are doubts about this vaccine because the goverment is involved . I’ve said it afore I’ve said it in Brighton

[emmie]

who else should be involved if not the government, to get its citizens protected....

[rowanwitch]

Well roll up my sleeve and call me a cavy

[ichkeria]

"I’ve said it afore I’ve said it in Brighton "

it was nonsense in Brighton and it's nonsense here

[woofgang]

rowanwitch wins the internet today

[emmie]

what's a cavy...

[woofgang]

emmie, a guineapig

[Zacs-Master]

It’s spelt Cavie.

[Llanfair]

Cavy is the right spelling, at least according to Chambers

[emmie]

ok thanks

[weecalf]

ichkiera you missed it oh dear

[Peter Pedant]

// APG - all her post needs a health warning

lack of vaccine does NOT need to greater child health

The only guinea pigs in this are the Russians because large scale safety trials are being done - on them! and the ROshans are saying - the death rate from covid is nothing like the side effect rate of the vaccine

vaccines are not usually called drugs - altho over the defn ( anything with pharmacological effect so sterile water may be a drug) it fits ( uncomfortably)

the difficulty with " I am very clever : I am not have the vaccine !" is - - - it may not be very clever