Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 8 2021 06:04am)
Correct. Believe it or not but nearly 100% of our treatments and preventions are less than 20 years old. Very few medications last even 10 years without significant improvement being made. If we waited 50 years to see all the long-term side effects of every treatment or preventative measure we would literally be stuck in 1800's level medical technology.
There's a reason why we just don't care as much about long-term side effects though, and that's because they tend to be just less harmful than acute side effects by a massive factor, and a medication or vaccine only gets approved for use if it is treating a larger problem than the side effects it causes. So when you take the weight of risk versus reward, you end up with the risk of continued disease being 1, risk of side effects being something like a 0.005, and when you factor in long-term side effects it tends to only go up to like a 0.006.
Wrong
Vincent racaniello literally said the opposite and virology is something hes doing for 40 years.
In his words, whatever happens long term we dont know. Whoever tells you that they know, is lying. We know how it works short term and how mrna affects covid, but there's nothing known for long term effects.
Note that hes a pro vaccine in order to fight covid, even though he claims we will never get rid of it now that its here. But hes also against pushing it on people as there is a big area of it we're unfamiliar with
This post was edited by SylvesterStallone on Sep 7 2021 11:16pm