I’m not saying that SARS-COV-2 is harmless. No. I never said that. It’s about as dangerous as an influenza virus. A seasonal, moderate flu. What I am saying is that the most at risk are those over 70 with severe pre-existing conditions. So, if you say, we should protect them, I’m right there with you and that’s good.We have to do that. We should want to protect them. But how?
Then the question is: Should we vaccinate them? I would say yes, but these vaccines better be tested damned well for safety, especially because this vaccine will be used primarily on older sick people and not on young healthy people.
So, twelve months is not enough time for that. Not even five years. Certainly not. And that just applies to conventional vaccines.
His overarching point here is that (1) This isn't the black plague of the middle ages, or the Spanish flu. It's serious, but about as serious as a "moderate" flu with the usual group of people most affected (older, with pre-existing conditions).
(2) Since this isn't the zombie apocalypse, lock everything down, keep kids away from school kind of "pandemic" that Fraud-chi and most of the media have sold to the general public...there is no need to rush into mass population distribution a vaccine(s) that even if it has been tested on 100,000 people....has NOT been studied long enough. His point is that a few months of data, is NOT enough time to determine mid-term...let alone long term safety.
There is nothing nutjob about wanting to be cautious in this case.
Waiting 10 years? Why bother? It’ll have killed ~1.3 million Americans by then.
The vaccines we have in hand have been thoroughly tested despite what the Democrats and this crackpot want to claim. If this guy wants to wait more than “five years” then he should go for it. Encouraging others to not get vaccinated is foolish and will cost lives.