Are We Going To Be Guinea Pigs?

[smurfchops]

Why are we going to have the Covid Vaccine before any other country? Do they want to see the side effects before,they accept it ??

[Barsel]

Lots of comments for me to take on board.

[woofgang]

PS of course a huge accelerant is funding. Funding employs more people and buys more equipment.

[ichkeria]

This sort of thing is embarrassing though ...
By Williamson’s logic that makes Russia the greatest country on the planet :-)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55175162

[Sunk]

Every country in the world is going to certify this vaccine. Somebody has to be first to give approval. Why was it the UK?
- we have the best regulators in the world? : No.
- it was a chance to queue jump? : No.
- it is a political gimmick? : Absolutely.

[emmie]

as long as we get it does it matter

[woofgang]

Sunk....so did the Tory party say to the rest of the world "please please we need the brownie points let us be the first to certify it?"

somehow I doubt it.

[bobbinwales]

am sure sunk and other's would of criticised if are country had approved it later than other countrys. Sometimes you cant do right for doing wrong

[AuntPollyGrey]

its the old and frail that are getting the vaccine first that will be the guinea pigs. I don't care what government says, that's why they are not giving it to the fit and healthy to allow them to go back to work and re-open the economy. They want to see if Grandma & Grandpa snuff it first after having the vaccine.

[woofgang]

APG, the first people who will be offered it are the ones most likely to be killed by getting the virus

[AuntPollyGrey]

Yep then they can do post-mortems to figure out why it killed them -collateral damage I think its called.

[AuntPollyGrey]

*it* being the vaccine not the virus.

[Atheist]

I think this government is really interested in the economic consequences, not the humanitarian or 'kindly' issue of who 'deserves' it. If they give it to the old first, then I suspect that they are playing to the 'bleeding heart' gallery and at the same time doing what APG suggests.

[woofgang]

APG, it has already been tested on old volunteers

[ichkeria]

Indeed.
Covid 19 has been tested on “old people” and killed thousands.
The vaccine similarly and has killed ...
no one.

[jno]

oh, isn't that nice, "high-value" travellers are going to be exempt from quarantine restrictions. I hope they don't bring too many high-value infections with them.

[chrissa1]

For God’s sake, APG I was born in 1950 and had polio injections, smallpox injections etc etc. My father had tuberculosis ,which I caught from him. I was lucky enough to have the drug Streptomycin which tasted vile but, stopped me from becoming ill from the disease.

We have moved on so much since the 50s and 60s, why start doubting this new wonder drug?

[andres]

We usually follow America but in this instance it seems that they are waiting and might follow us. If all goes well of course.

[Peter Pedant]

be a guinea pig yes please

I want the vaccine ( and all YOU cant have it until later) as I rate myself as too valuable to DDDIIIIIIEEEE!

particularly vulnerable ( blood cancer to you proles )

[Sqad]

Chris's

////was lucky enough to have the drug Streptomycin which tasted vile but/////

Streptomycin was only given by injection,it was P.A.S that tasted vile.

[Peter Pedant]

the history of FDA
foot dragger of america
is NOT inspiring

they saved America from Thalidomide as they hadnt got around to considering the paper application before it went bad

and forever after they have had this saintly rep to keep up
which they do chiefly by dawdling

and you can cost delay - - - three months at 500 a day ( 1000 in stateside _ is 45 000 needless deaths or 90 000 in america
which or whom need not have died if the same product had been licensed at a more timely pace