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I'm inclined to wait because I know the trial process was accelerated, but I also know that it was rigorous enough to meet all the usual standards, plus I really can't think of any reason to expect longer-term side effects than would have been seen in the trial period, so I can't say I'm that worried. Conveniently, where I'm low-enough priority that I won't even be eligible to get it for another several months at the very least, enough doses will have been administered by then to satisfy any skepticism I'm harbouring. I'll be getting it shortly after I become able to.

Zeus posted...

Anybody who expected Biden to take the helm on COVID were sold a bill of goods. For all of his tough talk, in terms of actual performance he's probably done less than Trump.

... He's been in office for less than three weeks. I know Trump set the bar pretty low, and it seemed like Trump wasn't president for most of January because he basically spent the entire month holed up in his room while he masturbated furiously to the dictionary.com page for "fraud," but are you really giving him a hard time for achieving less in half a month than Trump did in ten?

Of course, that's ignoring that he has already started off light years ahead of Trump because the country now has a president that isn't deliberately downplaying the virus by insisting that it doesn't exist, trying to falsify numbers, or staging public appearances while infected to diminish the seriousness of his condition. Whatever Biden has or hasn't done to help the response along, he hasn't actively harmed it, which is more than can be said for Trump. I'd gladly take a president whose entire response was "no comment" over one that actively sabotaged public health agencies' ability to accomplish anything by creating a culture of distrust and defiance, and Biden's already surpassed even that bare minimum of a standard.

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