Try ad hominem attacks on people who give a @#$%. Shooting the messenger does not alter the truth of the message.
The fact that I am the one who keeps pointing out that despite well over 200 million Americans having been fully vaccinated against Covid, the piles of dead bodies that should result were The Vaccine deadly does not change the fact that the piles of bodies and consequent disruptions to life and the economy are totally absent. The claimed cause has had no real-life effects.
Also, Part 1, before any Covid vaccine was authorized for use in the US, each one had been tested in studies involving 30,000-60,000 volunteers. The law that provided for Emergency Use Authorization was passed in 2005, IIRC, over a decade before Covid. Further, while the several Covid vacines were authorized after Phase 3 testing (the 30K-60K recipients), Phase 4, monitoring of recipients in general is part of the FDA's protocol. So there are ongoing safety studies of the Covid vaccines.
Also, Part 2, the bogey-treatment remdesivir (trade name Veklury) was developed in 2009 and tested Hepatitis C and RSV (and a couple others over the ensuing decade), a decade before the SARS-CoV-2 virus came along. Thus, while remdesivir was not effective against those viruses, there was a decade of available safety test data on remdesivir when 2020 testing showed that it was effective against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In other words, just because you did not know the safety testing was done does not mean it did not happen.
Ad hominem? Because I said I know your stance, or because I said you like rolling eyes emojis? Either way, I will not stipulate to calling it ad hominem and don't appreciate the implication. I don't believe in personal attacks, even towards those I don't like ... and you're not one of those. I'm sorry to hear I'm apparently one of those for you.
I've never said anything about piles of dead bodies. I didn't even say covid vaccines weren't tested. I said that there are no long term studies because they have not existed long enough to HAVE long term studies. A fact which is indisputably true, and referencing that ongoing studies are part of the FDA's protocol doesn't change that. The studies are not complete. I don't want to be a test subject. I don't object to anyone else who does want to be a test subject ... so long as it's presented as a choice and not as a mandate if you want to keep your job, for example.
The EUA law being passed in 2005 is a non-sequitur and completely irrelevant to my statement.
Remdesivir has a bit longer testing profile, yes, but even that was accelerated. From Wiki, "Remdesivir was rapidly pushed through clinical trials due to the West African Ebola virus epidemic of 2013–2016, eventually being used in people with the disease."
Again, I have no problem with your choices, Pete. I'm sorry you have a problem with mine. And for the record, my opinions and willingness to accept risk didn't start with covid vaccines. I didn't take or allow my kids to be given Garadsil, either, and I can't say I regret that one bit.
