The price of going unvaccinated is rising. Will that persuade more people to get the jab?

The Dallas Morning News ^ | August 29, 2021 | Mitchell Schnurman

[monkeyshine]

The only “proof” is the clinical trial data. I haven’t done a deep dive but I recall reading lightly that the difference between the drug arm and control arm was not all that great. It was a large trial, and using statistics the greater the n (number of people in the trial) the easier to detect small improvements. So you may have a point, it’s worthy of inspection.

BUT, and WORSE STILL, is that they (at least Pfizer) broke the blind on the clinical trials. After some relatively short period of time, they told the people who were on the placebo arm that they were placebo, and offered them a chance to get the vaccine. That is almost always taboo - double taboo. You don’t tell the placebo they got placebo, and you don’t (generally) let the placebo cross over to the drug arm (there are some exceptions, usually for progressive diseases where the drug appears to work so for ethical reasons you let placebo arm people getting sicker a chance to use the new drug - but afaik never before for vaccines since you can’t vaccinate someone already sick).

So there is a whole lot of fudging that went on.

[higgmeister]

The poor old man has already lost his marbles.

[grumpygresh]

Maybe Biden made deal with Taliban to transact all drugs, arms and human trafficking in dollars. We have the narcodollar, pedodollar, gundollar.