[cashsterling]

My unpopular opinion, as someone who worked in vaccine development and biotech manufacturing for a lengthy portion of my career, is that:

- vaccination should be a personal choice... no one has the right to compel anyone to get injected with anything. Full stop.

AND

- we need to raise the level of scientific and medical rigor applied to vaccine development, manufacturing, vaccine administration, and ongoing monitoring / pharmacovigilance so that people will feel comfortable taking vaccines.

The fact is that different quality and risk/benefit rules are applied to vaccines versus other injected drugs and this is not okay (read up on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed on 1986, why it was passed, and how vaccines are tested for efficacy and safety versus other injected drugs).

Under normal circumstances, the COVID mRNA vaccines should have failed the clinical trial requirements for human safety. There were far too many adverse events in the clinical trials and many, many people were harmed by these mRNA vaccines (with quite a few deaths). The NIH & FDA largely swept this under the rug and refused to investigate or fund adequate investigation. Unfortunately, that entire episode has seriously harmed people's faith in the government and has negatively influenced people opinions on vaccine safety.

This is very disappointing because there are a lot of highly effective vaccines with excellent safety profiles when administered properly... vaccines almost everyone should receive. But the average citizen can't tell the difference and I don't blame them if they don't trust the government to protect them at the moment.

[Tainnor]

> The NIH & FDA largely swept this under the rug and refused to investigate or fund adequate investigation.

Did all the other governments in the world that approved the covid vaccines collude with the NIH and FDA or is there maybe another reason that (almost?) all countries approved at least some of the vaccines?

> has seriously harmed people's faith in the government

which government out of the 195+ different ones that we have in the world? is there a chance that a pandemic and subsequent global health crisis is something that's a little bit bigger than the partisan politics of a single country?

[robocat]

> raise the level of scientific and medical rigor [snip] so that people will feel comfortable taking vaccines

That won't help because people mostly aren't scared of the facts.

They are scared by the stories they get via social media.

They are scared by the actions of their government (the foolish words by WHO and the US politicians early in COVID really damaged trust). I'm in New Zealand and we had our own foolish government decisions (often unscientific).

In my experience trust cannot be regained after it is lost.

[rbanffy]

> no one has the right to compel anyone to get injected with anything. Full stop.

OTOH, this refusal puts others at risk, people who, for actual medical reasons (such as being too young) can’t be vaccinated. Can someone deliberately choose to be a danger to others and not be considered reckless?

[vfclists]

> Can someone deliberately choose to be a danger to others and not be considered reckless?

Who are the people you view as choosing to be dangerous to others?

It is those forcing dangerous vaccines onto others or those refusing them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRiDgasJDNs