What I don't like is how German government makes false promises all the time.
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How long do they want to keep up those rules?
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I simply don't get the logic behind that all.
We're save guys, most people got their vaccine.
Why isn't the vaccine enough to get back all freedom, including the freedom of not needing to wear a mask?
Dear Askarus I think just about the opposite of you (the virus is more harmful and the vaccines are less effective than said, and masks and all sort of measures are more needed than enforced),
but we agree that the policy has no glimmer of logic, not even tries to. And I think we agree that the policy is effective in selling vaccines. Did you read
telepolis ?
I'm afraid the dishonesty we're all grown used to (not only about vaccines or private medicine, it's just the same in any service or product) is worse than the side effects or the lack (or rather eventual lose) of effectivity of the vaccines, or injections or whatever.
The vaccines are still experimental, and I'm too ignorant to comment on them, but my gut feeling is that they're worse that the official discourse and still very good considering the tight time scientists have had.Hats off to the vaccine developers. But overselling them kills their credibility.
For example. Janssen was emergency authorised as a one shot vaccine. I haven't looked but I think the first dose ever was given maybe 11 months ago or so ?
Now I've heard people who got one dose of Janssen are told to have a second one of mRNA after 3 months from their Janssen. If they were not susceptible to clots they may still catch miocarditis. I've seen a lot of news stories about the effectivity of vaccine cocktails. They didn't even speak of the safety (in the press, I guess it's mentioned in the scientific literature, and I don't think authorities would propose it if proved unsafe, unproved safe might be political par for the game though).
So mRNA 3 moths after Janssen. Excuse me ? If the effectivity after 3 months was too low then the hurried clinical trials should have shown that. If you tell me that it needs a booster after one year, ok, how could anyone know ? But after 3 months ? They should have known for half a year, shouldn't they ? Are we shifting the goal posts? Or is the virus mutating or our knowledge of it ever incomplete ? If so isn't that an argument for the futility of vaccination (not really, I think, but don't oversell) ? Or was our knowledge incomplete, but not that bad at all, but we didn't use our knowledge when we used vaccines as replacements for pandemic contention, and assumed if vaccines prevented death they should prevent contagion without even having tried to measure it ? (it doesn't matter if that's because of lack of resources or lack of interest).
Then AZ was discredited badly when the clot problems were discovered. Ok, clots are no laughing matter, but were all vaccines really treated equal ? Authorities proposed to have Pfizer as 2nd dose for those with AZ 1rst dose. Most people chose to repeat AZ. What does this tell us about the credibility of official advice ?
In any case, it's not very helpful for anyone having to take a decision on their own bodies, is it? If the virus is new it's to be expected that the solutions are unknown and it's good to update advice as evidence builds up. But it's not too reassuring that the main reason to accept a vaccine is that else you're left without a job, or unable to buy groceries, or study, or isolated, while certified vaccinated people apparently unkownlingly spread new or old variants wherever they travel, because new waves of infections keep spreading even through highly vaccinated places, for now with lower lethality. Or worse, since pandemic contention is tabu, refusing to accept a vaccine will just have you getting COVID-19 and dying because effective measures to stop any infectious disease are too business unfriendly for you to afford.
So you have to accept vaccines again and again while people who are just as human as you but under a different government (or further down under yours) would like a dose or two but won't get them because... money.
Man!
