Ultra, lots looks like it's you and me going back and forth about what it obvious but we have to have a veiled banter back and forth. So for the record:
I am absolutely a fan of big pharma, with the vaccines added to the list,life saving drugs,absolute revolutionary ideas that have not only saved millions of lives, but thousands of evolutionary medications that allow people, .myself included to take substances that allow us to get on with life. I have personally experience with the mind blowing treatments for burns,degenerative eye condition, Nue-skin for bicycle and motorcycle racing accidents, high blood pressure,and various cancers.
The rate of development and mobilization of Covid everything from drugs to therapy and now looming disease prophylactic is truly amazing.
in another thread I praised the entire production,top to bottom of Dopesick, a great show starring Michael Keaton, about what can go wrong with big pharmaceuticals, again truly amazing,but amazingly negative,deadly and destructive.
But one of your main points about Covid vaccine,Covid vaccine mandates that you often revisit deserves respect and discussion,careful analysis.
every discussion in my opinion,should start with the basics ,the parity in vaccines and vaccine mandates by the government.
Polio ,mumps,measles vaccine mandates to enter school for example are OK, but Covid is a bridge too far? That just doesn't wash w me,doesn't pass the smell test.
And as a veteran, I was glad to see leadership and attention to mission readiness, Covid vaccines were added to the list of mandatory battery of shots, needed to serve. Not grey, no warm and fuzzy, no internet opinion,either follow directions or move on..
As we are witnessing in the civilian sector, Covid vaccine mandates are over the top contentious, no easy path forward.
So again out of respect and consideration.
If people are not going to get the vaccine voluntarily and there is an obvious public health risk, what is the solution going forward? Carefully omitted from most intelligent debate is the personal preference relief valve, if you don't want a vaccine, testing is an option..how could testing be bad?
There is a sign at our pool that says, if you have this condition,don't enter the pool and swim..I always think of the people who see that,have the condition and swim anyway