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Originally Posted by CRS
I don't understand why people are so concerned with a short period of time.
Do people not realize that the world's resources were pooled into this vaccine and all the red tape for applications and trials were addressed in a priority manner?
The reason why other vaccines take a longer time is because they have to apply for grants and then go through a series of waiting to hear back from governing bodies.
This vaccines has gone through the same scrutiny (if not more) than any other vaccine.
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I've mentioned my concern over the vaccine before... The timeline is an issue because we just don't know what the long term ramifications are. What if the vaccine requires boosters every 6 months to be effective? OK that's expensive but doable. But what if it gets less effective each times it's used? And eventually the vaccine is completely useless? Now we're more fucked than ever, and in the hole a few quadrillion $
What if the vaccine causes the virus to mutate (which is
the main concern) and we end up with something even worse? Or now we have to take monthly shots or weekly?
Simply fearing it because it's the first mRNA vaccine is mostly due to ignorance, but still somewhat understandable. As laypeople, we don't know what it even means in terms of what it could do to us even in a worst case scenario. There's no info out there one way or another, because it's never been done on humans before. Not to any scale, let alone "literally the entire planet"
I am optimistic
based on the info that I've seen, but it's understandable that people aren't. I only base it on what I've read and heard, but there's a high chance that there's facts that nobody can know yet.