Boffins already have vaccines that 'work'

The question is really what are the side effects. Now we basically get a risk balance - unabated covid + associated lockdown deaths vs deaths from the vaccine. Once one (not insane - I'm looking at you Putin) country pulls the trigger and licences a vaccine there will be enormous pressure on other countries to proceed to vaccinate even if there are real concerns about the safety of the vaccine.

UK covid deaths 40K + 35K from delayed cancer treatment + 100k? from the recession (recessions cause poverty and poverty certainly causes death) at this point. How many from second wave vs proportion of 60 million suffering 'suboptimal' vaccine outcomes.

Most of the more serious / worst case scenario suboptimal vaccine outcomes would (hopefully not tempting fate here) be things like autoimmune diseases such as Guillain-Barré or Greg House's favourite, lupus.

The old normal is coming back. Potentially sooner than you think. Because the new normal doesn't make rich people as much money as the old normal does.

Apologies for my cynicism tonight

Posted By: Timmy_Goat, Sep 20, 21:10:43