For a good balanced discussion as to why we should take the vaccines but also be cautious, this interview of the Director of the Chinese CDC is vey informative. Yes the vaccines should be treated with caution, but given the unprecedented high risk from Covid-19 not only of causing death, but also of paralyzing society, it is important to proceed with vaccines. This is a balance between risk and benefit and the benefit outweighs the risk. The interview also touches on other subjects, especially about the conspiracy theories that China let the virus loose from a laboratory. But the most important point that comes out is that to combat this epidemic, we need a universal unified approach, and we need to be aware of the disruptive nature of the ‘infodemic’ which is the pseudoscientific quackery of the conspiracy theorists.
When will Dave join the pseudo Marxist into exile? It is actually very telling that Dave agrees with no one else but N_ who claims to be a Marxist, the most dreaded form of politics for Dave. Is there some dissonance there?