On 11/01/2021 09:48, Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:16:28 GMT
> David Higton  wrote:
>
>> In message 
>>            Pancho  wrote:
>>
>>> I'm old and it seems perfectly defensible to me. Expecting
>>> perfectly healthy people, at low risk, to take a poorly tested
>>> treatment just in order to protect others seems a tad selfish to
>>> me.
>>
>> I want you to cite evidence that the vaccines are poorly tested.
>
> It's hanging on your wall, or if not then on your computer screen.
>
> It's called a calendar.
>
> Medications can reasonably be declared tested and safe after five to ten
> years. Whatever you choose to assert, the Covid medications (mostly not
> vaccines) have quite obviously not yet been shown to be safe over that
> kind of period.
>
> The *kind* of medication that some of the 'vaccines' are has not been
> shown to be safe over a reasonable period. It's pioneering stuff.
>
> Thalidomide was 'safe' and 'properly tested'.
>
Life is risky.

In the end cost benefit analysis is all we can use.

Perhaps pregnant women should avoid it, but people are dying *already*.

It was very unfortunate with thalidomide that the effects showed up in
foetal poisoning only.  The medical profession simply hadn't seen that
one coming.

Like aircraft designers in the 1950s didn't see metal fatigue coming, or
in the noughties certain software failures...
We do the best we can think of. Sometimes we haven't thought enough.

Life is risky





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