Originally Posted by Arturito

TLDR: You cant sue the pharma company nor the FDA if anything goes wrong. I realize 99% of people won't have any ugly side effects but the fact that the 1% are SOL is really disturbing.

Originally Posted by rickair7777

It's far less than 1%. Very far less, or they would never get out of clinical trials. And you're not SOL, there's a compensation program... it's just not equivalent to winning the lottery (like you might hope for in a lawsuit).

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html

Originally Posted by Arturito

Hopefully the law is changed very soon and retro active.

Originally Posted by Arturito

The vaccines are obviously safe but the 0.000.....01 % (whatever that number is) who picked the short straw need to be compensated.

Originally Posted by TOGALOCK

Absolutely. As others have pointed out, there is a moral responsibility to ending the pandemic. I know people argue that there isn't currently any documentation that the vaccine will keep you from spreading covid to others. I argue that, on the other side of the coin, there isn't any documentation that it doesn't either. So far, the belief amongst medical experts seems to be that, even if you can still spread it, it is to a lesser extent with the vaccine.. putting others around you at far less risk. This belief stems from the fact that the virus is hanging out in your nasal mucus. While the vaccine will keep it from replicating inside your body, it may not be able to hit the small amount still sitting in your nose. But, if it isn't replicating inside your body, you are spreading a far smaller viral load than someone without the vaccine. This puts someone else at a far smaller risk of developing a serious case, if they even became symptomatic at all. I guess it's like spraying someone with a squirt gun vs a fire hose. They're still going to get a little wet, but not soaked to the bone.

Also, as a healthy person in their mid-30s, I'm not particularly worried about being wiped off the earth by covid. However, I've talked to enough people who have had covid that still get winded going up a flight of stairs a couple months after recovery. The lingering, and possibly long term effects are concerning. What may be a mild inconvenience for most people could be career ending for a pilot. I feel that any possible long term effects of covid far outweigh any from a vaccine.

Originally Posted by Phins2right

The experimental vaccine DOES NOT, WILL NOT stop the spread. It only lessens (theoretically and yet to be proven) the affects of the virus.

Originally Posted by Phins2right

In the end it should remain a personal decision to take the experimental vaccine or not. No one can tell you what to do with your body. Let's hope is remains this way.

Originally Posted by BoilerUP

Where does this oft-repeated claim come from?

There's not yet definitive data that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will prevent transmission so scientists can't and won't make that claim...but generally speaking, that's precisely what other vaccines do.

Absence of evidence does not necessarily mean evidence of absence.

Originally Posted by Gordie H

Nice...right out of the Qanon lexicon: "My body my choice"
https://www.asisonline.org/security-...uage-of-qanon/

Originally Posted by Phins2right

What is a q whatever???

you obviously don't read what I write on here. I have no love of politics or politicians. it's the worlds second oldest profession.

not sure what you're driving at - other than to use it to "win" an argument almost like calling someone racist. Typical these days. Just cry racist or q whatever and then never have to argue the merits. Lazy.

You and about 7 others on here are always guilty of that. Facts. My assertions are proven by facts. Go back, read my posts, then look at what is going on. No q whatever. Just facts.