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Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility
- billy99k 1y ago[flagged]
- pfdietz 1y agoOh no, someone impinged on your god-given right to spread a potentially lethal virus.
- tonetheman 1y ago[dead]
- vFunct 1y agoWere their injuries more important than the lives mRNA vaccines saved? Someone should be in prison for cancelling mRNA research.
- bigyabai 1y agoYou weren't "forced" into anything. Go cry to your employer if your options hurt your feelings, nobody here cuts your paycheck.
- Fade_Dance 1y agoI think OP sounds like a typical anti-vaxxer, but "forced with threat of losing job" seems accurate enough. It's not an option for the average person to lose their job and stop paying their mortgage stop feeding their family, etc. Especially if you were living in a place that had vaccine checks at doors to many places. Effectively, as a society we did "force" the vaccine. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's accurate enough.
- bigyabai 1y agoSee though, these are all options in America. If your apartment wants to enforce a no-pets policy and you own a dog, it's not true to say that society forced you to get rid of the dog. You can express your dissatisfaction by taking your business to a competitor that respects your values and/or work ethic. Past a certain point, it really is your fault. You don't own the apartments, it's unfair to enforce your demands on someone else's property. Similarly, it's unfair (and unrealistic) to demand that other private enterprises ignore common sense to serve your harmful whims.
- michaelmcdonald 1y agoPeople are injured wearing seatbelts in automobile accidents. People are injured by anesthesia during surgery. We require these things because for the greater population, the larger scope, they are well worth whatever small risks exist. We as a species / society have an issue looking at the bigger picture when the consequences affect us personally.
- jaybrendansmith 1y agoIt's called the "common good". Hard to understand by someone as self-interested as yourself, it means that you do something, like take a vaccine, not because you would necessarily die from Covid-19, but because many older people might die from the infectious germs you are spreading around. By doing this for the common good, you help reach herd immunity, and help eradicate the disease. It's a simple concept, much like 'women and children first', a sacrifice that honorable men with character make. That you would whine and complain about a pinprick shows what little character you have, much like a little spoiled child.
- Gibbon1 1y agoBecause we have people like you such things are unfortunately necessary.
- panarchy 1y agomRNA medicine is like the futuristic technology I would read about in sci-fi it's seriously so cool and unfairly catches a bunch of hate because it was politically convenient to attack as a scapegoat.
- jaybrendansmith 1y agoThey just killed the future you, because you don't have access to that cancer-curing mRNA treatment. Opportunity cost is a bitch.
- jmclnx 1y agoYes and will give China a tremendous lead in the Drug Industry. I hope people in the US will not mind having to source their Drugs from China in say 10 years. This will kill the US pharma industry, which is one of the few Industries that has been growing a lot in the past few years. Xi thanks RFK jr and Trump for yet another Gift.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoChina deserves to win the future. It was the US’ race to lose, and it voted for this. No one to blame except the one holding the foot gun.