Would you get your kids vaccinated against COVID?
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Matthew Jackson2 said:You keep making this point that vaccines are the crowning achievement of modern medicine, but I have to disagree. There is actually an even greater achievement at play here, because it’s what allows us to develop vaccines in a way that is both safe and reliable in the first place.
What I’m talking about is the entire framework of principles we have painstakingly established over decades of research. These are the rules that dictate exactly how we must prove the efficacy and safety of any medication or vaccine.
At its core, whether you are treating a patient or administering a vaccine, you are performing a medical intervention. For that action to be ethically justifiable, we absolutely must understand the safety profile and the specific outcome we are aiming for.
That means having a reasonable assurance regarding long-term safety and a clear, demonstrable benefit. Trying to justify the benefits of an intervention by brushing aside potential unknown risks sets a dangerous precedent—one unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the history of medicine. It goes against everything we have learned from experience and flies in the face of the very standards we built based on that experience. And frankly, those rigorous standards themselves are the true crowning achievement of modern medicine.
So what's the problem with current vaccines? The CMA only approved the ones that proved they were safe and effective by following those exact principles.
And I'm definitely not agreeing with you that those principles are somehow "greater" than the discovery of vaccines themselves.