a chance at escaping quarantine without understanding the risk. Yet it appears that the FDA makes no attempt to understand the downside risk associated with NO

a chance at escaping quarantine without understanding the risk. Yet it appears that the FDA makes no attempt to understand the downside risk associated with NOT taking the vaccine. I don't see them talking to economists trying to understand what damage will be done to our businesses, and how people will suffer as a result of that; or even of what lockdowns are doing to our mental health. The ONLY risks they're considering are on the side of taking the vaccination. And this is always how it works for them, both in normal times and during the pandemic. Consider last March, when the CDC's covid-19 test was defective. Despite the fact that the assay is a simple matter that any decent hospital can do in their own lab, the FDA would not allow anyone to do it. That set America's pandemic fight back by a couple of weeks. If we could shift the spread backwards by two weeks, how many thousands of lives would we be saving? The FDA's hidebound refusal to look at both sides is responsible for this.