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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:44PM (#28701449)
> you are implying that emergency use approval protocols are just as safe as normal protocols

No, I’m saying that EUA protocols exist with defined standards for a reason, and putting things that mert the standards through them is not moving goalposts, since its exactly where the goalposts have been set for quite some time.

> why don't we follow emergency use protocols all the time?

We do, if people apply for an EUA. Of course, very often they don't because the standards that exist for EUAs would rule them out.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by fsckboy on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:15PM (#28701724)
you are using double-speak to avoid agreeing with the clear sense of what I'm saying. Just come out and say, "these vaccines themselves posed an unusually high risk to the people receiving them; we just thought it was worthwhile because of the threat the virus posed"

It's not like I'm trying to get you to admit something else that's true, that "there are actually benefits to study in in having a portion of the population unvaccinated, since we don't actually know the long term effects of either the virus, natural immunity, or the vaccines"

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by _moof on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:39PM (#28702274)
There is no clear sense of what you're saying because you refuse to answer any clarifying questions. If you want to participate in a discussion rather than just lecturing us about how we're being "reprehensible," tell us what you mean when you say untested. Because the clear meaning of that word is untrue on its face and you have so far refused to offer any explanation for what you meant. "Trials that take time" is likewise utterly lacking in clarity, because there were trials, and they took time.

I am honestly trying to understand your point of view. I really do want to know what specific difference between EUA and approval you're referring to. Not as a gotcha, not as some kind of rhetorical trick--I am taking you seriously. But you seem to be deliberately refusing to return the favor.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by int_19h on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:30PM (#28712953)
You claimed that the vaccines were "unleashed untested". This claim was shown to be false: they are very much tested, albeit not as rigorously as in normal times - but these aren't normal times, and such possibility is precisely why the emergency protocols were already in place.