[kook_throwaway]

>Lots of folks afraid to take a shot that's been well-studied and given to millions and is, in all probability, quite safe. ;)

That's one way to describe it.

Another less charitable way to describe it: a novel gene therapy being deployed by organizations with a long history of experimenting on the people they were meant to protect.

Pfizer and J&J got the two biggest fines ever handed out by the US government, and moderna and biontech have never had a drug approved before. The US government's history of performing medical experiments on it's own (and foreign) populations speaks for itself.

It is interesting how you characterize the lack of trust in these organizations as selfishness.

Edit: Apparently I've been posting too fast despite my last post being over an ago, so I can't reply. This post has also been flagged, probably due to the gene therapy comment.

Both Modern and the FDA consider it to be a gene therapy.

"Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA."[1]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000168285220...

[md_]

I guess I'm just willing to live dangerously. Lots of folks are just too coddled and unwilling to take a risk, even for the greater good.

Back in the good old days, we were really willing to take risks--to cross oceans, even, as the op wrote--to do new things that could benefit our fellow human beings. Now it's all about "Oh no, this is a novel therapy that might infinitesimally increase my personal risk".

Really kind of sad.

[kook_throwaway]

>Lots of folks are just too coddled and unwilling to take a risk, even for the greater good.

I'm not sure how you arrived here from my comment. If I was willing to dox myself you'd see that I have probably taken more risks for 'the greater good'™ than you or even most folks on this site. But those days are over, and this whole situation is setting off all of my finely tuned alarm bells.

You should spend less time stereotyping and more time attempting to understand others.

Letting others do as they please is also a risk 'for the greater good', by the way.

[artificialLimbs]

We used to like spraying DDT on kids at pool parties until the 'settled science' got challenged.

[disneygibson]

It is really scary how trustful people are of pharmaceutical corporations. We don’t even need to go back to DDT; the opioid epidemic was quite recent. What happened to the skeptics?