Will This Convince Some More People?

[sunny-dave]

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-grants-full-approval-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-2021-08-23/

A hole below the waterline for the "I'm not taking an experimental vaccine" merchants - this is now a fully validated and approved drug.

But I'm afraid all too many of them will simply re-orient their tinfoil hats and find another excuse?

[New Judge]

It's unlikely to convince anybody who refuses to be convinced.

I have a refusnik nephew. He is convinced that Big Pharma and governments are in collusion to invade his body with all sorts of things that will make him an obedient, compliant citizen. That's his reason for refusing the vaccine. I have told him he is a pillock; he has told me I'm a gullible old git who believes everything he is told (which is just about as far from the truth as you can get). That said, we get on well together and respect each other's views (even though he is a pillock).

There is no way that this "full approval" will have any impact on him. He will simply assert that this is all part of the process to gain control over a recalcitrant population.

[rockyracoon]

No, I doubt it. The biggest refusenik that I know is convinced Covid is a conspiracy to legalise paedophilia (I know, don't ask). There's no getting through to that level of imbecility.

[ToraToraTora]

I doubt it, they are MAABOF to start with and there ain't no cure for that!

[ToraToraTora]

I love the chippers! They think that Bill Gates is installing a tracking chip but they still carry a mobile phone! PMSL!

[Canary42]

They prefer cow medicine

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1762845.html

[jno]

it's not called Cowvid for nothing, Canary...

[archibaldy]

It might convince a small minority and could give a reasonable climbdown for those that are regretting not having one so far and need to save face whilst getting vaccinated, but most think they are clever for not taking it because they have secret knowledge about it, and this won't sway them.

[Deskdiary]

I’ve heard some wild and absurd reasons, but a conspiracy to legalise paedophilia is a new one on me.

I know you said don’t ask, but I can’t help but ask. How the hell did he reach that conclusion?

[roadman]

I am for the vaccine but also it does say usa fda i dont know if that is different to the uk one i know our mcdonalds chips are different chemical wise americans use so many we dont allow will there be a uk fda approval or is there just one fda sorry i do not know

[rockyracoon]

DD. I have no idea. But it started with the Wayfair conspiracy, Google it if you haven’t heard if it, it’s a real eye opener. I actually can’t engage with the woman at the moment as I just don’t have the patience.
She was radicalised online during lockdown and she’s completely barking now. Always referring to Qanon, or whatever you call them, a perverted Cabal, The Great Reset, Covid virus on the the test swabs, the list goes on. It’d be hilarious if she wasn’t serious.

[woofgang]

roadman
"I am for the vaccine but also it does say usa fda i dont know if that is different to the uk one i know our mcdonalds chips are different chemical wise americans use so many we dont allow will there be a uk fda approval or is there just one fda sorry i do not know"

The vaccine is the same. The MacD's chip difference is because of the potatoes used and nothing to do with added chemicals.

[Gromit]

Maybe these things take time, but the Pfizer vaccine arrived in December 2020, and they are only giving it a full thumbs up in August 2021.

[brainiac]

NJ - I, too, have a nephew, but far from being a refusnik, he is a consultant anaesthetist in a large hospital. Maybe your nephew should contact him, and my nephew could tell him just what he has seen in the course of his work in the past 18 months, and that, yes, your nephew is indeed a pillock. I think he would have much stronger words for him, though.

[fraser]

Oh dear lol covid Nazis at it again,live and let live enjoy life and be happy we all die sometime some young some old no point in having a go at people who have a different opionin that's call communism/fascism live life love you all.

[roadman]

woofgang that is not true at all

USA
Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients.

UK
Potatoes, Blend of Non-Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose (predominantly added at beginning of the potato season).
Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Salt is added after cooking.