Re:Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat gr...
by threatofrain on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:22PM
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China isn't dealing with the same situation because Sinovac isn't as good, they haven't purchased a large stockpile of reputable western vaccines, and so the value proposition of forcing everyone to vaccinate isn't as strong.
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Re:Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat gr...
by colechristensen on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:49PM
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>reputable western vaccines
Many vaccines were developed, the less effective ones aren't really a matter of "reputation" but something more like luck. Many things were tried, some worked better than others. There was no guarantee that never-before-approved mRNA-type vaccines were going to work, be safe enough to use, and work better than other vaccines, but it did turn out that way. That was not a result of a priori superiority or reputation, but an experimental technique happening to work out well.