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I would prefer not to consent to a possibly dangerous 'weaker' version of COVID. This idea would completely take choice away and experiment on the human populac

• a-dub 6y ago
  it's a last resort, it's true... but with variants mutating, i think we have to ask ourselves how much of a existential threat does this thing pose to the species. moreover, what's the difference if vaccines become mandatory anyhow? all the vaccines do is expose humans to the spike protein... if anything, hacking the virus seems safer than hacking the human body to produce the spike protein. i suppose it's hard to stop, where you can halt a vax campaign. i don't believe it would be impossible to establish a safety profile for a modified virus that is on par with those of the vaccines. or everyone could just stay home for a month...
  • reedjosh 6y ago
    > i think we have to ask ourselves how much of a existential threat does this thing pose to the species. I'd say not as great a threat as setting the dangerous precedent of experimenting on an unwitting populace.
    • a-dub 6y ago
      under normal circumstances, sure. but iff this thing poses an existential threat, the ethics calculus changes. i'd like to know if real virologists think that we're facing an existential threat.