Saturday, September 3rd, 2022, 6:28 am
UK Statistics: About 58% of the Population Opted to Receive a ‘Booster’ (and Now They Say Another Vaccine is Needed)
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ust over half of the British population took a third ‘synthetic’ COVID-19 dose, aka “booster”. Seems many people decided they had suffered enough and the available cure wasn’t perceived to be potent enough (better than placebo but not enough to curb COVID-19).
Had the government not rushed and instead properly developed something (it sent it to the private sector with patents on publicly-funded work), then tested it more thoroughly/properly, maybe confidence would be higher.
When vaccine giants (read: patent pools) came out to market they said their barely-tested (no real clinical trials in line with established protocols) products were like 90% effective… then 92%…. then 96%… etc. This smelled like baseless, crude marketing (cheating to quote higher figures than the competition’s), with no independent audit or reproducible tests. More than 1.5 years later we can all see they lied about efficacy, hence they’ve caused hesitancy. The problem is, they’ve lowered people’s confidence in vaccination and some became more cynical about other shots, too. Boys who cried “wolf”? Unintended consequences? We now see the monkeypox patent pool; it leapfrogged the normal procedures similarly, showing what a such race to the bottom (of QA) begets.
I’m pro vaccines and vaccinated. There’s nothing wrong with vaccines per se. Not testing them properly, or not learning from major blunders from the past, is what’s wrong. Even the original polio vaccine took about half a decade before large-scale rollouts. We should not tolerate abandonment of quality control, which is another form of public safety. We’re meant to also be guarded from corporate greed; the government needs to properly assess the quality and safety of such products. There should be no shortcuts in the supervision process. None. Don’t prioritise profits.
Critical thinkers and sceptics haven’t lost sight of the fact that British media now pushes for a new vaccine. Yeah, because the first one was so successful that this summer was the worst so far.
