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3PiesAndAFork posted...

https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/05/basic-research-paved-way-for-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccines/

@MysticLord

That means nothing, any time you change a single atom on a molecule you need to go back through the approval process with the FDA, which again involves years of testing to verify it doesn't have long term side effects. Especially for things like auto-immune diseases, which can take decades to show up.

Remember that old yarn about I think aspirin being one molecular group away from LSD, where one cures headaches and the other makes the top of your head fall off? That's why we do this (though technically it's a bit more complicated than that).

Besides that, the coronavirus family includes viruses that cause the common cold. They mutate constantly, and we had a process for making vaccines for them but they ditched the previous processes and went with entirely new ones. Presumably so the pharmaceutical companies could make more money as they own the patents for these new processes, and for free R&D given that they are protected from civil and criminal liability for the new vaccines that are being forced on us.

You guys can complain about what I'm saying all you want, but it's not my butt on the line because I'm not taking them. It's YOUR butt - you're taking them, you'll deal with any side effects 10 or 20 years later.

One would think that the people taking all the risk would think critically, but I guess reddit upvotes are more important than not developing an auto-immune disease.

"Not take the vaccine? But that means I won't get Hashimoto's disease and need to take synthetic thyroid medication for the rest of my life!"

*tears off his own head and yeets his thyroid gland*

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