[FR_addict]

“Duh. Are people with co-morbid conditions more likely, or less likely, to submit to vaccination?”

I have co-morbid conditions and will rely on the prophylactics for Covid, not on an experimental gene therapy. I've done my research. I'm sure there are plenty like me that will not take the shots. Covid sounds a lot less dangerous than the side effects including death from experimental gene therapy shots.

The government has done this in the past with other vaccines, including the first polio vaccine. They rushed it out, even though the monkeys got polio. Some of the vaccinated contracted polio, some died. They changed to the Sabin vaccine. This one also had problems - monkey viruses.

[blueplum]

Most cases of polio were highly-contageous asymptomatics. Children stricken with paralitic polio had a 2%-5% death rate; it was 15%-30% for adults. The first polio vaccine, in 1935, contained live virus and was a failure. The second, sponsored by the precursor to March of Dimes in 1953 and led by Salks, used an inactive virus and was successful, but a bad batch of live virus caused deaths and the govt called an end to the program. Joint US/Russian research led in 1963 to Sabin’s edible sugar cube vaccine, which the US govt found preferable. Twenty years later, polio was erradicated from the US. (I recall getting the sugar cube in 62 or 63 - part of a school health day at an on-base elementary - in hindsight, maybe we were the ‘phase 3’ and didn’t know it? Nobody at the school got polio, tho.)

The world waited 18 years for a polio vaccine. But that was based on 1935-1960 science and scientific ability (no computers). In the meantime, we’ve defined trials into phases that need to reach benchmarks and specialized medicine into world-wide brainbanks. I sure hope we have advanced further than mid-20th century technology and medical thought in producing new vaccines with a tighter timetable than 18 years. Expecially when faced with a future where biowarfare is an existential threat.

[nagant]

nagant: Duh. Are people with co-morbid conditions more likely, or less likely, to submit to vaccination? you: I have co-morbid conditions and will rely on the prophylactics for Covid, not on an experimental gene therapy. I've done my research. I'm sure there are plenty like me that will not take the shots. Covid sounds a lot less dangerous than the side effects including death from experimental gene therapy shots. I'm sure the voices in your head have convinced you that everyone like you believes like you do, but it is not so. The incidence of co-morbid conditions is a function of age. Here's the age demographics of COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S.

[nagant]

nagant: Duh. Are people with co-morbid conditions more likely, or less likely, to submit to vaccination?

you: I have co-morbid conditions and will rely on the prophylactics for Covid, not on an experimental gene therapy. I've done my research. I'm sure there are plenty like me that will not take the shots. Covid sounds a lot less dangerous than the side effects including death from experimental gene therapy shots.

I'm sure the voices in your head have convinced you that everyone like you believes like you do, but it is not so. The incidence of co-morbid conditions is a function of age. Here's the age demographics of COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S.