Absolutely terrible guess. I don't work for anyone.
The ‘medical profession, regulators and pharmaceutical industry know best and everyone else is a gullible conspiracy theorist’ approach has played a major part in keeping the anti-vax movement rolling along. It’s right up there with the Labour Party telling everyone who has concerns about immigration that they are a racist bigot or the 'everyone who votes Trump lacks intelligence' approach to politics.
As I understand it, frontrunners in the race to produce a vaccine for Covid19 are ‘RNA vaccines’. I get why that is the approach given that they offer the possibility of much more rapid production than the ‘traditional’ approach of using a deactivated or attenuated samples of the virus itself, but it is new technique and one that has never been used on a mass scale in humans. They are also being developed over a very time scale again for understandable reasons.
Every vaccine carries a degree of risk and the factors above have to increase the possibility adverse effects going undetected until the mass use of one.
As I have been mentioned, I would accept a Covid19 vaccine if offered, but a grown up conversation about the risks is not a bad thing.
I agree with that, but endlessly sharing and swallowing conspiratorial nonsense wholesale does not constitute a grown up conversation about the risks.
I've not seen a single effort here to discuss the actual risk vs benefits of vaccines, because frankly to an even slightly informed person its not a conversation worth wasting time having. The only real exception being your own negative experience, yet despite that the recognition vaccines do far more good than the risks overall and you still would take them.
Don't know what it's like there but news here, especially local, is slowly returning to the more usual stories of stabbings and shootings. The virus was only about the 5th story this morning and that was a report about attacks on Chinese and Chinese looking businesses and people in the street. Don't think Trump realises the repercussion of him mentioning China about 3 times every sentence he utters.
Travel through the airport here is at 1967 levels this Bank Holiday. Not so with prices at the supermarkets unfortunately which are being driven up by food shortages mainly due to shutdown of meat processing plants with virus outbreaks. There's been no fresh beef or pork in our local store for weeks.