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"There has never been a mRNA deployed that is effective for a Corona virus."

In June 1968, no human being had ever walked on the moon. In March of 1927, no one had ever successfully flown an airplane across the Atlantic ocean. In 1860, no one had ever taken a photograph in color. In 1895, no one had ever built a car. History is filled with firsts. The mRNA approach is just new. That doesn't make it bad or evil or impossible. New is just that: new. Maybe it won't work. That's alright, we should still try new things. It's still going through the same phase 1, phase 2, and phase 3 human clinical trials as anything else. In theory, it's perfectly sound. Modern is only 10 years old. That isn't that long to produce a next-generation pharmaceutical product.

"Animal husbandry has been trying for decades. Remember what happened to cats when a vaccine was attempted? It killed every one of them eventually."

I have no idea what this is in reference to. I can find nothing of cats dying from an mRNA vaccine. The humans who took Moderna's vaccine candidate in phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials are still alive. You know how I know that? Because they got approved for phase 3. However, what I DO find is that a similar approach was used for Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus. Seems it works just fine. Source

"Ever hear of the Cutter incident? or the Swine Flu debacle?"

Yes. Cutter Laboratories was a mom-and-pop pharmaceutical company that produced a number of tainted products because of terrible lab controls. Among them was an improperly produced batch of polio vaccine. The underlying vaccine was fine. This one lab produced a bad batch of it. 5 people died as a result. It's a shame. They're out of business. The "Swine Flu debacle" was 44 years ago and involved 450 people out of 45 million (that's 0.001%) who got the vaccine developing some level of (usually temporary) paralysis (technically GBS). Source 0.001%. 44 years ago.

If all the dirt you have on how bad vaccines are is one bad batch produced at a hole-in-the-wall lab that's long since out of business and a 44 year old vaccine with a bad side effect for 0.001% of the people taking it, that ought to convince MORE people of just how safe vaccines are. Not bad for having saved millions of lives over the course of decades.

"Taking any vaccine that has been rushed to development and deployment in less than 12 mos is suicidal. Take my place and any of my family. Good luck and God help you."

We've been getting quicker at developing vaccines for a long time. It took decades to develop the safe and effective polio vaccine candidate in the 1950s. It took years to develop a safe and effective varicella vaccine candidate in the 1990s. It took 20 months to develop a safe and effective vaccine candidate for SARS 2003. Ebola's vaccine candidate was completed in just 7 months in 2014. Zika's vaccine candidate was ready in 6 months in 2016. And in 2020, we did it in about 2 months for SARS-CoV-2.

This isn't some out-of-the-blue cosmic shift in vaccine candidate development. We've just been getting incrementally better at it for decades. And now, with the tools we have available to strip a virus down to its last gene in hours, we're just better equipped to deal with it.

Every vaccine candidate is going through months of testing with tens of thousands of volunteers. After one (or more) gets approved, you can choose whether you want to take it or wait (or never get it at all). We don't need everyone to take it for it to do its job. We need ENOUGH people to take it so herd immunity is achieved and the SARS-CoV-2 virus can't find new hosts. It will then die out and we can move on with our lives. There's nothing radical about that.