Posts by SphericalCow 6 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Oct 2021
US regulations are a joke compared to EU ones. They are not meant to protect citizens but the business.
Well, the EU authorities have raised the alarm a full THREE years after the launch of an extremely popular consumer device, so I would say this sorry episode speaks volumes about their certification process. Horse, stable door, bolted springs to mind!
Makes you concerned about what other products have slipped through the safety net or have simply not been tested at all.
There were serious talks in, shortly after the war started, which were making progress, but the West pulled the plug.
And before I get shouted down. This is no fringe, Putin-apologist conspiracy theory.
The Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, who was a mediator at these talks, has confirmed it as fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK9tLDeWBzs&t=10774s
So true!
Just remember the note left by Liam Byrne, chief secretary to the Treasury, when the last red rabble were booted out, "Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left"
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money!
Of course, we're doubly screwed nowadays since there's barely a cigarette paper between the ideologies of the two major parties.
The most recent terrorist attack was the result of a lone, radicalised religious extremist.
Twitter et al. didn't even exist at the time of 9/11 and 7/7, so why has online anonymity entered the politicians' cross-hairs? Furthermore, when serious threats from anonymous accounts have been made in the past, the authorities have often managed to trace them back to an individual.
Once again this is another example of government overreach that does nothing to address the actual problem but conveniently helps curtail civil liberties.
"mRNA vector is novel; the adenovirus vector is not."
I strongly urge you to check your facts before posting, especially when refuting a claim.
Prior to the arrival of the COVID vaccines there had been a grand total of two viral vector vaccines approved for use, both for treating Ebola. The first came in November 2019 and the second July 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector_vaccine#History
If that doesn't fit the definition of novel then I don't know what does!
<i>AZ is a viral vector: a more established approach to vaccine creation.
Specifically it's a chimp cold virus, modified to resemble Covid-19, without the nasty bits. This is a well established approach to vaccine development.</i>
This isn't quite right. Viral vector vaccines are novel and there have been just six approved for use in humans - four for COVID and two for Ebola. The first, rVSV-ZEBOV, for Ebola was cleared in November 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector_vaccine#History
<i>mRNA has been approved before, just not for something on this scale. It's just that people haven't heard of it before which has caused hesitancy.</i>
Again, this is incorrect. Research and trials on mRNA vaccines have been going on for 30 years but the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine was the very first to be approved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine#Acceleration
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