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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by tptacek on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:32PM (#29124935)
This "how did the vaccines get approved so quickly" thing has to be one of the most asked- and- answered questions of the entire pandemic. The basic delivery platform for the vaccines had already been in human trials before the pandemic. We've also been doing rapid development of vaccines for many, many years to combat things like influenza. Coronaviruses had already been well studied, and we had dry-runs for vaccine design with SARS and MERS.

You can just do a Google search to read about 1,000 articles about how the vaccines got approved as quickly as they did. You don't need to ask your friend who works at Gilead. Not for nothing: their clinical trials would probably go a lot faster with a global pandemic lighting a fire under them.

We've administered these vaccines to almost four billion people. "COVID vaccines are dangerous" has become an extraordinary claim, demanding extraordinary evidence. There are people who sincerely believe that aspirin is dangerous, and yeast, and "mycotoxins" on coffee beans, and on and on. We're not required to take these arguments seriously on faith.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by dang on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:05AM (#29127432)
You broke the site guidelines badly with this, and we ban accounts that do that. Please don't do this again.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by darthvoldemort on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:49AM (#29128053)
Dan, you're protecting tptacek from criticism which is absolute bullshit. I very fairly criticized his lack of reading comprehension, and the fact he's not an expert in anything except for security. What he accused me of in his comments was worse and protecting him is bullshit.

He came in attacking me twice and you do nothing to his account? He didn't even read my post and then started his rant about the vaccine when I wasn't even talking about the vaccine.

If you're going to threaten with banning, I suggest you do it to everyone fairly, even if he's one of your "favorites". You should be flagging his posts, not mine.

Plus, you flagged my perfectly accurate post on how thalidomide is safe, it's the chiral version of it that causes deformities?

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by dang on Sunday November 07, 2021 @02:36PM (#29142690)
That wasn't a neutral post about thalidomide, it was obviously flamewar fodder, and therefore rightly flagged.

Would you please stop posting like this now? If you keep up this flamewarry/offtopic stuff, we're going to have to ban you. Also, please stop hounding any particular user. That's not in the spirit of the site at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by pvg on Saturday November 06, 2021 @05:02AM (#29128593)
There really isn't (on HN, at least) such a thing as 'very fairly criticizing [anyone's] lack of reading comprehension' in those exact terms, it's just a slightly wordier version of 'did you read the article/comment/etc'.
Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by tptacek on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:22AM (#29130411)
Dan doesn't flag posts, users do.