The politics of the biggest science experiment of all time: The COVID vaccines

I listened to President Biden last night.
It started as a very depressing speech,
but ended with 'the vaccine, the vaccine,
the vaccine' ... with no credit given
to ex-President Trump for facilitating
a vaccine development process in months,
rather than years.

During the Biden speech.
I imagined how much worse
the COVID-19 pandemic
would have been if Democrats
had been in charge one year
earlier, in January 2020.

On January 31, 2020
President Trump shut down
incoming flights from China.

Democrat Joe Biden objected,
and called Trump xenophobic.
Democrat Nancy Pelosi
and many other Democrats
objected to Trump's decision,
and it appears they would not
have done the same, if they
had been in charge.

President Trump supplied

New York City with

a huge hospital ship,

but it was barely used,

because Democrat 

Governor Andrew Cuomo 

preferred to send

COVID infected patients

to nursing homes, rather than

making Trump look good.

That foolish decision

resulted in the NYC

metropolitan area

having the worst

COVID death rate

in the world 

(although the death 

rate inside China

is unknown)

President Trump pushed the 

fastest vaccine development 

in history, by paying for 

100,000,000 doses, before 

the vaccine was produced,

and allowing the companies

to avoid liability for adverse 

side effects.

I believe the ultra-fast 

vaccine development,
with only two months 

of observing side effects, 

and no liability, are risky
for a new technology vaccine.  

 

It's hard to believe 

that with Democrats

in charge, standard FDA 

procedures would have 

been abandoned, and 

corporations would have

 been allowed to avoid 

all liability.

Now that Biden is pushing the vaccine,
Democrats will not allow any vaccine
questions or debate. That's how leftists
treat climate change ... and every other
leftist belief.

 

Hopefully, this medical experiment
will end well -- the vaccines
will work as well as claimed,
will work well on COVID variants,
will last a long time, and the
side effects will be mild.

That's wishful thinking, and only
time will tell how successful the biggest
medical science experiment in history
(mRNA vaccines) will be.

Consider what we know about the worst
flu pandemic in history. The one in 1918
and 1919, that killed my grandmother,
when my mother was only two years old.
There was one very large spike of deaths,
and later a second spike of deaths
(a pattern similar to COVID-19, so far)
... and then it faded away, in spite of
no cure, and no vaccine.