I think the judgment will be equivocal. Early on or did good things. The disease evolved and I give you there are vaxheads that worship it and seem addicted. Such is their choice
I was around for some true disasters. Check out the Xigris story in around 2011. There are therapies that go completely toes up. I do think the good thing out of this is monoclonal therapy. It’s something that is targeted and I think is nonobjectionabe to even the most recalcitrant. I think on my lifetime and beyond mRNA platforms will be very very good. It’s an elegant solution to problems.
Just not in the hands of idiots like Fauci
This mRNA vax was experimental when it was released, no question about it, the most minimal of testing was done.
As such, I can see no rational analysis which would reflect poorly on people that opted to sit out the mass trials. Assuming of course the assessment is made from a freedom/liberty respecting position. From a communist perspective, those people did not due their duty to the people! They shirked their responsibility! Everyone pulls the trigger in this game, comrade.
I agree the mRNA pitch is a very elegant solution. We don’t need a factory to make this antibody, we instruct your body how to make antibodies! Very cool idea. Requires a lot of trust though (I need to trust the medical community is writing good code), and the med community is fresh out of that.
It doesn’t matter how cool the technology is if its success was achieved by running through a bunch of unwilling human test subjects to fine-tune the code.
If this went down the way I suspect it did, then the world forgot that they were supposed to “Never forget”.
Thanks for the tip on Xigris, I had never heard of it. I will say, that one is not as dangerous as the mRNA treatment because from looking into it, that was a last ditch effort for people that were about to die from sepsis. Seems like a con to get more money out of dying people right there at the end ($8k for a course of treatment!). It’s interesting that it was approved and stayed on the market for so long before people figured out it wasn’t doing much.
Consider, to this day we’re giving the current mRNA vax to healthy kids. It is tuned to the original and Omicron strains. Both of which blew through long ago. The pitch for mRNA is that they can very rapidly develop vaccines and get ahead of an outbreak. So why are they putting out vax for old strains then? The vax should be tuned to whatever is emerging now, right?
No, something is very, very wrong here.