Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Would FDA approval change your mind on getting the shot?

I will not get it,approved or not.

No. I look at any medicine based on need. If there is no need for me to take it, I don’t even if is as harmless as aspirin. At my age and health, I don’t see any need to take anything with regard to a possible future Covid infection. My analysis could well change in the future as my circumstances change. But that is my evaluation as of now.

The FDA has approved what ever Big Pharma has paid them to approve.

This

NO!

Sure, why not? It just means that enough people have beta tested it before I get it.

With all of the discussions about how the government is (mis)handling Covid ,and then complaining about the vaccine not being government approved.
Seems hypocritical to accept it once it is.

Agreed, kind of goes with my point.

one question that should be answered is why is there no legal liability for manufacturers?

I don't think our government would lie to us, would they?

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Huntz nailed it.......

This is exactly the way I see it. I'm 60 and in good shape/healthy. No reason at this time to take the shot. Approved by the FDA or not. I don't get the flu shot, either. As I get older, things might change, but it would have to be pretty drastic.

Are you saying the current vaccines are not approved by the FDA?

Waited for a bunch of family/friends to get it. They got it. No ill effects. They were the guinea pigs.

That is correct,they are not.
They are experimental.

I will consider it approved, by me, in a decade or so.
The entire process is new.
It is not just a new vaccine, as we know vaccines.
It's new science. The long term is an open guess.

Illustrative joke #1

A guy gets into an elevator and there's a gorgeous woman in a fantastic dress already there. He gets in and strikes up a conversation.

"Would you have sex with me for a million dollars?" he asks after initial pleasantries.

"Yes, I would." she said.

"How about Fifty dollars?"

"What kind of woman do you take me for?" she asks

"That's already been determined," he replied. "Now we're just haggling over price."




Illustrative story #2

I was having a review my my boss, Monty. Monty was an odd sort corporate puke, a real remittance man kind of guy. Monty was trying to make a point about "guys like me." Exactly what kind of guy that was, I never fully determined, but I don't think it was anything I'd want to be. It had something to do with taking risks.

"Would you jump out of a plane?"

"It depends," I said, "But probably not unless I had to."

"Would you do it for a hundred dollars?"

"No."

"Would you do it if I gave you a million dollars."

"Monty," I said, "There are things in this world that you chose to do that have nothing to do with money. If you do it, money is just not an issue."

"I don't understand."

I then proceeded to explain that I already had my name on the map-- quite literally. I was a retired caver. By the time I was 25, I had already pushed a lead and discovered 300 yards of virgin cave. I'd been the first vertebrate in that section of cave, not just the first human. I did it, because the hole was there and I went in, and that was what I'd signed up for and I did it, and I was glad I did it and no one had given me any money to do it. In fact, I would not have risked my neck like that for any amount of money. There's now a section of cave under Sgt York's grave that bears my name.

Monty was stunned. The review ended there.



My point is, if I was hesitant to get the shot before, wtf would I want to do it, because the FDA approved it?

If COVID was a concern I’d get it today.

It never was and never will be.

No

EUA approved............Emergency Use Authorization - for what that is worth.