Originally Posted by
ObadiahDogberry
You don’t need to trust the news. How about you go directly to knowledgable and expert sources. Go to the CDC website, or the FDA, or the Mayo Clinic, or Johns Hopkins medical school. Don’t trust U.S. sources? Go visit the Canadian government sites, or the McGill University Medical School website. Visit the UK government websites, or the University of Cambridge Medical School website. Visit the Republic of Ireland official websites, or the EU official websites, or the Australian websites. Visit the websites of their top medical schools. That is the beauty of the internet, you can access information from across the globe directly from experts, all from your phone.
The entities you listed do not each do their own research. Instead, they rely on research and reports from other entities they trust such as the CDC and WHO. The CDC and WHO are not free from bias.
I am vaccinated. I think the risk/reward ratio favors vaccination, BUT the decision is not the "slam dunk" some here imply.
Vaccines have been available for many, many months, and yet cases are rising globally and even in heavily vaccinated countries like Israel and England. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or the CDC to recognize that the touted benefits are not what was claimed. Vaccinated populations continue to contract, spread, and die from COVID. It should now be obvious that even if the world could miraculously vaccinate 100% of the population; we'd still have people dying. This is a flu. It mutates every year. Humans have been fighting flu pandemics since before recorded history began and will continue to do so for decades to come. The vaccines are clearly helping reduce mortality, but more than that no one can say for sure.
The vaccine is not a miracle cure for this pandemic, and trying to belittle the opposite side as "unscientific" is sad.