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Yes. Ethical review boards, patient confidentiality, and modern clinical studies did not exist during any other pandemic comparable with SARS-CoV-2. Like in war
by saddlerustle 5y ago
Yes. Ethical review boards, patient confidentiality, and modern clinical studies did not exist during any other pandemic comparable with SARS-CoV-2. Like in wartime, when the threat is to society as a whole not just individuals, individual rights take a back seat.
- olliej 5y agoAnd yes we had experimentation on all sorts of minorities, general exploitation, and in some cases into infliction of harm. What good old days those were.
- cheaprentalyeti 5y agoYou're not protecting anyone from the next Tuskegee Experiment by witholding potentially lifesaving medications from them. You're _repeating it_. According to Worldofmeters: At the moment the United States has 1848 deaths per million people. Thailand has 21. Cambodia has 20. Taiwan 18. Vietnam 0.6. Laos 0.4.
- olliej 5y agoYou’re stopping the Mendel’s and the Tuskegees. Tuskegee wasn’t an experiment in “we don’t know if this drug works” it was explicitly intended to study the progression of syphilis - they weren’t withholding drugs because they didn’t know if they worked, they were withholding them because black people weren’t human to them. ERBs and the FDA both exist to protect people from becoming victims.