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Do we really have to keep going over this? Vaccines are low-profit meds at best for pharma companies. So much so that governments have to induce drug companies to make them. We’re not talking about a profit motive here.
Feel free to repeat that comment about the “medical establishment “ around a stressed-out health care worker right now. When you wake up, odds are good you will be on a stretcher in the hallway because all the ICU beds are full.
Finally, using the Tuskegee Experiment as a rationale to avoid COVID vaccination is about as offensive as the folks who use the Holocaust as a rationale not to wear masks. Which is to say, very offensive.
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Shit, I’ve been taking the artesian vaccine.
Well, guess we’ve all been under a lot of pressure lately.
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Well, the chemistry used to produce it is…
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What, exactly, are the faults of the current testing requirements for the vaccine? What evidence is sufficient to prove efficacy to you?
The data is there, and it’s available. I understand that blind trust of the companies isn’t warranted, but when we’re talking something of this scale, we’re not looking at a process carried out in a back room on 15 people, we’re talking publicly tracked and funded testing of thousands. This is not a fly-by-night operation.
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Im shoving nothing, simply repeating what I hear in Black spaces. Not everything is some looney QAnon fantasy. I believe in science and got vaccinated, but I understand why BIPOC communities are suspicious of the medical establishment.
Like this Black space?
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What the actual fuck.
I’m really gonna need you to quit using Black people as some kind of weak-ass shield, any time now.
We are NOT your ‘negroes.’
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I guess that’s better than arterial vaccines. Less bloody, certainly.
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I too have heard many BIPOC people speaking on these issues. While some have expressed trepidation, many seem to agree that the VAST majority of people putting the rest of us in harms way by refusing to get vaccinated are white people, right wingers, especially, who believe it’s a conspiracy that has grown out of the white replacement theory. THAT is the problem.
Now if we’re DONE using anecdotal evidence to discuss a global pandemic…
My friend here is correct… BIPOC most certainly do not NEED you to speak for the them.
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This is completely insane.
We are in the midst of a pandemic, where kids are dying and filling up pediatric ICU’s.
We have a safe, effective vaccine.
Instead of administering the vaccine, we are crowding the last remaining group of totally unvaccinated people together indoors and hoping for the best.
Schools aren’t doing virtual learning, we don’t even have that option.
Just hoping and praying our kids don’t catch it, or if they do its not too bad.
There’s just no way the risk/benefit analysis of withholding the vaccine makes sense, based on the data we have now. The FDA’s caution means more children will die than would otherwise need to, and it’s unforgiveable.
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School board meetings? Trump rallies? White evangelical churches?
Honestly, if it were just the under 12 who were still not vaccinated, and most adults who can get vaccinated had done so, we probably would be in a better place to send kids to school and would likely have mask mandates…
I’m sorry. I hope they stay safe. Make sure they wear their masks, wash their hands, and stay as distanced as possible from others at school.
I would argue that it’s the real reason it’s a problem is the politicization of the pandemic and public health measures in the first place. If we did not have that, the FDA could afford to be more cautious, as it should be.
We know who to blame here, and it’s the people who refuse to do their part of our kids.
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