“Well, I’m not an anti-vaxxer or anything. I was just waiting for the FDA to approve the vaccine first. I didn’t want to take anything experimental. I didn’t want to be the government’s guinea pig, and I don’t trust that it’s safe,” he said.

“Well,” I said, “I can pretty much guarantee we would have never met had you gotten vaccinated because you would have never been hospitalized. All of our COVID units are full and every single patient in them is unvaccinated. Numbers don’t lie. The vaccines work.”

This was a common excuse people gave for not getting vaccinated, fearing the vaccine because the Food and Drug Administration had only granted it emergency-use authorization so far, not permanent approval. Yet the treatments he had turned to, antibiotics, monoclonal antibodies and hydroxychloroquine were considered experimental, with mixed evidence to support their use.

“the economist” wrote:Most adults who want the shots already have them, meaning that the unjabbed population is made up largely of anti-vaxxers or the unmotivated. One way to encourage the latter group into getting vaccinated is to offer cash incentives. Several states have done just that, starting with Ohio. On May 12th Mike DeWine, the state governor, announced the launch of the Vax-A-Million programme. Between May 26th and June 23rd individuals who received at least one dose of any covid-19 vaccine could opt into a lottery that would reward five with $1,000,000 each and five youths aged 12-17 with full scholarships to an Ohio public university of their choice. The initiative cost $5,600,000 According to a new study, it averted around $66,000,000 in healthcare costs.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:14 am

kokorodoko wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:57 pm Because it wasn't approved???

…thereby discrediting Putin.

kokorodoko wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:28 am

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:14 am

kokorodoko wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:57 pm Because it wasn't approved???

…thereby discrediting Putin.

Sure, but the distrust is likely not because he is Putin, which your original post implied.

jason from volo wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 9:52 am If the general consensus is that no one gives a shit about the approval (it's not going to convince anyone else to get vaccinated, and it isn't being used to trigger some sort of mandate), then I think we all as a country need to ask ourselves why we're even bothering with the approval at all. Those engineers and scientists could be doing something else right now.

AdamN wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:28 pm I feel like for certain demographic groups, this is the first time in their entire privileged lives that they've been asked to do something altruistic / to think of others before themselves, which is what mask wearing and getting vaccinated is. It's not just about you, Pavement Princess F-150 owner. Shellac understands this, because Steve, Todd and Bob are mensches. Same goes for Einsturzende Neubaten, who keep rescheduling and canceling gigs. Garth Brooks, Foo Fighters (playing in Anchorage at a moment when there are no ICU beds left!), GnR, Lolla, Pitchfork...are all gonna have blood on their hands at the end of this. Fuck them.

When people end up at this point, wtf do you even say to them as their therapist? mio dio