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Conner4REAL posted...

Due to the lack of availability for the vast majority of the population early on the whole uncertainty will have largely gone away because those who come in contact with the disease the most will have taken the vaccine and documented any potential remaining undetected side effects.

so unless you are a doctor nurse or first responder the vaccine isnt even an option for you, and by the time it becomes available more and more people will have taken it from the various forms form diff companies.

due to the unique nature of the circumstances the problem of vaccine fears will work itself out by itself.

This is basically my stance on it. I'm skeptical because of how quickly the vaccine has been railroaded through the usual steps, but by the time I even have the option of taking it, vastly more people will have taken it than ever would in a normal vaccine trial and I won't need to be skeptical anymore. Relying on vulnerable people and front-line workers to test it for me like that isn't particularly ethical, but I don't really have much choice with how the whole situation is going to play out. All I can do is roll with it.

Muscles posted...

"Arguments from authority carry little weight authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts."

Here's a quote from Carl Sagan for you, since you think I don't know what I'm saying

"He's right because he's a doctor" is fallacious, because it relies entirely on his status as an authority figure to validate his opinion. "He's more credible than you because he's spent decades studying this matter and publishing works on it which any of us can read while you saw a youtube video once" is not fallacious. That's just the basic concept of evaluating sources before citing them.

Doctors and epidemiologists are not always right, but the only alternative we have to listening to them is to make it all up ourselves, and that's just dumb. The best option we have is to listen to them and trust that they're operating based on the best available data until they are found not to be.

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