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> it is a short-lived antigen that trains your immune system, then goes away. The injection being "short-lived" is completely irrelevant, as its effects on you
by logicalmonster 5y ago
> it is a short-lived antigen that trains your immune system, then goes away.
The injection being "short-lived" is completely irrelevant, as its effects on your body are permanent. As we don't have long-term knowledge of its effects, the (admittedly unlikely) possibility of long-term problems exists until proven otherwise.
Feel free to disagree if you want to, but I judge that risk to be a bigger threat to me and society than the comparatively small risk from Covid.
> This isn’t 1960, it’s 2021
I'm sure people in the 1950s were saying something similar, perhaps something like, "This isn't the ancient world and we're no longer messing around with leeches or trepanning. We have sophisticated modern laboratories, have modern medicine that has boosted life expectancy tremendously, and man has even harnessed the atom's powers. The days of medical errors are over."
Scientists should always be wary of hubris.
> It’s safe, certainly safer than COVID,
First you say it's safe, then you say it's safer. Which is it? I know how to identify weaselly language when I see it.
> and necessary to protect you, your family, your neighbors, and our society.
This is a slogan.
The risk-management calculation is different for every individual.
- dang 5y agoCan you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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- dang 5y agoCan you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Edit: you posted 30 comments to this thread, and most of them broke the site guidelines. That's way beyond the pale. I'm not going to ban you for this because your commenting history before this looks fine, and everyone goes on tilt sometimes—but for heaven's sake please don't do it in the future!
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