Agree.
But then there’s the Gardasil vaccine. I had my girls get it when they were 16 (not 12) and now I sorta regret it. It really doesn’t protect against much.
And the flu vaccine. Never had it myself. One daughter gets it because it’s required for her job as a nurse. My two oldest didn’t get the chicken pox vaccine and had chicken pox and were fine. Two youngest got the vaccine, many years after it was instituted, and fine.
And as you noted, nothing in life is 100% safe.
Glad for the polio vaccine. Whatever about the Chicken pox vaccine. Still questioning the Gardasil vaccine. Eh, the flu vaccine.
And now this Covid vaccine once it’s available in two years...is it going to be like the flu vaccine that doesn’t protect against the current strain of flu?
The polio vaccine actually made a difference.
Twink - just a note, I've read in the past that the polio vaccine was introduce after the peak of the Polio population infection curve, so the new cases were falling off naturally by that point in time.
Just say'n for your information, the Polio case drilled into our heads in grade school may have been more political than science.
I regret I don't have a reference for this, I go though reams of information, and saw this years ago. If nothing else is gained from this destruction of our economy, at least folks may now understand what "flattening of the curve" is, and that fact that there is a curve at all. A Polio vaccine released at the peak of the curve looks highly successful to the uninformed masses.
Also, back then, there was a concerted effort taking place to label non AMA doctors as quacks as the legal drug pushers were consolidating power.
I'm certainly no expert but from what I've heard the CV19 virus mutates as fast as the flu virus. So any vaccine may be just as unreliable as flu vaccines. The trick is selecting the right strain early enough to make a big supply of vaccine but it's like gambling.
I've had no problems with flu vaccine since they changed from making it with live viruses. It hasn't always protected against the strain of flu that is dominant in any given season but I haven't contracted flu from the vaccine as I often did in the live virus days.