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Could be a major step forward of course, but the non-medical problem is the same as it always is when political reputations are at stake. The question is so obvious as to be embarrassing, but how likely is it that adverse reactions will be openly admitted in a timely manner?
One a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is a completely open admission of adverse reactions, I'd put it round about 2. I'm an optimist.
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2 for me as well. I think that Pfizer's phase 3 study is due to conclude in Dec 2022, so that is the probable date we will hear. However, there will be all sorts of rumours and the stuff that Piers Morgan dreams up just to annoy people and keep himself famous.
Lots of media outlets will be eagerly searching for any possible hint of adverse consequences so that they can run shock-horror stories about evil Tories and Big Pharma endangering the public with a vaccine that hasn't been properly tested. So, it's going to be very difficult to conceal any problems that do occur, unless they get lost in a flood of manufactured outrage about everything that doesn't go absolutely perfectly first time.
Wasn't that Mr. Feeley, the surgeon on the Ivor Cummins video posted recently, saying that the impact of the vaccine was likely to be less than overwhelming? Either way, when I see the government getting this excited (Hancock actually shedding a tear during interview) and the BBC hailing it, then I reach for my book entitled "The Beginner's Guide to Cynicism".
That book suggests, as an exercise for building up your cynicism, imagining this announcement as a smokescreen for selling us out over Brexit. I tried it, and - for a beginner - found it quite an easy exercise. I'm looking forward to more of them in Chapter 2!
I saw the second recipient of the vaccine was a Mr William Shakespeare of Warwickshire, on further delving it appears he comes from Stratford on Avon, difficult to believe they found that one randomly, and isn't he a bit old to be resurrected to take a flu jab.
‘A man can die but once.’
Henry IV,Part 2,Act 3, Part 2
'cough'
Graeme - apparently people have begun to keel over already due to an allergic reaction. Not encouraging.
Andrew - you have been proved right already. Maybe it's now a question of whether those allergic reactions are a foretaste of things to come.
Sam - I agree with your book, it's amazingly easy to see this as smokescreen for selling us out over Brexit.
Wiggia - I bet he has spent his whole life having his leg pulled about his name.
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