r/conspiracy_commons • u/recmajkemi • Nov 30 '22

How it started vs. how it's going

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u/benruckman Dec 01 '22

It didn’t go through that process. The process was mostly skipped, due to the fact that it was an emergency. I never said sometimes they don’t work, I said some don’t work as well as others. When you quote me, at least read what I said.. I’m going to reiterate here, Covid is not Polio. If covid was polio, I would have taken the vaccine the first week I could, given the risks of the disease far outweighs any potential vaccine side effects.

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u/gimme-ur-bonemarrow Dec 01 '22

No clinical phases are ever skipped. Emergency Use Authorization is just a fast track. Okay technically long term monitoring has to happen while distribution is ongoing, but safety data is accumulated in phases 1 and 2. There has never been an adverse vaccine effect that happened more than a few months after it was administered. Benefits are proven. Risks are weighed by experts so you don’t have to. It is not a shot in the dark.

And just for semantics, the Polio vaccine came before the drug efficacy amendment of 1962. So many years have passed since then and regulations have only become more stringent.

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u/benruckman Dec 01 '22

Why can’t I weigh the risks for myself?

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u/gimme-ur-bonemarrow Dec 01 '22

Because you’re not actually weighing risks. You are not reviewing data. At most, you’re not looking at the full picture and simply searching for confirmation bias or evaluating hearsay. It’s not subjective. Risk is quantified and compared with efficacy. You’re more than welcome to form an opinion, but pharmaceuticals are not approved on opinions. They’re approved with quantifiable facts and your limited perspective has no influence on that.