First off, this couldn't happen on reddit, so yay .win because conversations.
Secondly, apologies in advance for typos and limited links as I'm answering this on my phone (my laptop is still packed away).
I think we can both agree the medical field has gotten politicized and really betrayed the trust of the public at large. Just as the surgeons who worked on Reagan after he was shot said, politics didn't matter "today we're all Republicans" and that's how it should be, focused on the patient, not politics.
For the flu vaccine, the base elements stay the same but the strains are chosen based upon estimated mutations in the hopes they choose the dominant strain for the season. Unfortunately this doesn't always work out. We live in a free society where people with lesser flu virus strains are free to not take care of their bodies and allow the flu strain they have to flourish and mutate. But that's 'Murica, if we want freedom to live our lives how we see fit, that means everyone is free to live how they want. That just introduces factors that are not easily anticipated.
Who scrutinizes vaccines? For the USA, that's the FDA and with clinical trials, paperwork, lawyers, etc, that'll cost upwards of 2 Billion dollarydoos.
How do we know if the FDA did their job? Read the medical articles from doctors in the field. These are easy to look up and find using: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Which is also great at finding studies to prove HCQ works, cloth masks are quite useless, and certain vaccines (anthrax vaccine, cough cough) have bad side effects.
Speaking from my own mandatory experience, I have yet to experience any negative effects from the myriad of vaccines I've been given and TBH, I'm thankful I haven't had to deal with the crap some other people were dealing with where I've worked, thanks specifically to those vaccines (people near me had some of the stuff I was vaccinated for).
First off, this couldn't happen on reddit, so yay .win because conversations.
Secondly, apologies in advance for typos and limited links as I'm answering this on my phone (my laptop is still packed away).
I think we can both agree the medical field has gotten politicized and really betrayed the trust of the public at large. Just as the surgeons who worked on Reagan after he was shot said, politics didn't matter "today we're all Republicans" and that's how it should be, focused on the patient, not politics.
For the flu vaccine, the base elements stay the same but the strains are chosen based upon estimated mutations in the hopes they choose the dominant strain for the season. Unfortunately this doesn't always work out. We live in a free society where people with lesser flu virus strains are free to not take care of their bodies and allow the flu strain they have to flourish and mutate. But that's 'Murica, if we want freedom to live our lives how we see fit, that means everyone is free to live how they want. That just introduces factors that are not easily anticipated.
Who scrutinizes vaccines? For the USA, that's the FDA and with clinical trials, paperwork, lawyers, etc, that'll cost upwards of 2 Billion dollarydoos.
How do we know if the FDA did their job? Read the medical articles from doctors in the field. These are easy to look up and find using: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Which is also great at finding studies to prove HCQ works, cloth masks are quite useless, and certain vaccines (anthrax vaccine, cough cough) have bad side effects.
Speaking from my own mandatory experience, I have yet to experience any negative effects from the myriad of vaccines I've been given and TBH, I'm thankful I haven't had to deal with the crap some other people were dealing with where I've worked, thanks specifically to those vaccines (people near me had some of the stuff I was vaccinated for).