
Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I answered the same question from khalwat on Friday's radio. But I'll answer it here, too.
"Proven" means that there's enough years that pass to where kids grow up and we don't see any long-term side effects from it (or the ones we see are super-rare).
It will not be proven after 5 years, but it will be a lot farther along than right now. Experts can't "decide" what is proven long term. The long term proves long term. This is the reason why all other vaccines have such a lengthier path to approval -- they typically have to wait a long time to see if medium-term and long-term problems pop up.
I believe the newest vaccine Ben has taken was the chicken pox vaccine, but that had been around for 15 years by the time he got it, so I wasn't concerned. Everything else had been around since I was a kid, or even earlier.
You can be pro-vax or anti-vax for kids. That's up for debate. If you think that it's a done deal that the COVID vaccine is safe long term for kids, you're just ignorant. Only time will tell us that. This vaccine already behaves differently than others, regarding side effects. For example, this is the first vaccine I ever took which directly sickened me for days.
So why aren't you ever on here telling us you're concerned about the long term sides effects of covid? Those actually have been proven so it's far more logical to think there's even more long term sides effects that we still aren't aware of.
That's one of the things that frustrates me the most in these conversations. The anti vaxers want to talk about possible long term effects of the vaccine and only care about deaths for covid. If you're completely looking at things objectively, death should be the focus of both or long term effects should be the focus of both.
When it comes to science, you really believe parents that know absolutely nothing about science should be deciding what's proven? In most fields there are standards created by experts.
I happen to work in the engineering field. When a bridge is built, it's designed by professional engineers, following standards created by other professional engineers, peer reviewed by other professional engineers, built by experienced contractors following the plans, managed by construction managers. When the bridge is done being built it's safe and effective when these people say it is. Imagine if millions of people were like, we're not gonna use that bridge for 20 years until it's been proven. It's proven to be safe because people that know more than you or I said it's safe. It would be pretty fuckin stupid to have random citizens decide when a bridge is safe.
How would there ever be advances in any modern medicine if everyone took you stance? How would anything ever be "proven"?