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To: robert b furman who wrote (12686)	1/13/2022 12:06:59 PM
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had we simply been told the truth at the very beginning The problem was that nobody knew "the truth". The initial advice, such as to reserve the good masks for the health professionals, was based on a concept that this virus would spread and mutate much like the flu. It didn't, it had it's own unique characteristics. Nobody knew this, they were guessing based on a model of previous virus epidemics. What most anti-vaxxers don't realize, because they listen to crackpots instead of informed sources, is that the vaccines in question, the MRNA vaccines were being developed for several years prior to the outbreak of covid-19. They weren't developed in a big hurry specifically for covid. They were developed as a general purpose vaccine platform for which the final payload (the bodies from which we develop antibodies) can be added in a relatively short time once the DNA sequence of the virus is known. It took 50 years from the time doctors tried to make polio vaccine until they actually had one that worked, and it had just as many side effects. The polio vaccine sometimes caused polio. The old way was not working. I'm sure the researchers would have liked to run more trials in jungles far-far away before releasing the vaccine, but the pandemic was upon us. So, the advice from CDC changed as new information was learned. This was obvious and understandable to anyone who followed the news. It wasn't obvious to those who avoided the news and followed the crackpots. There are anti-vax crackpots on the left as well as the right, but the left wing crackpots tend to hide out on little farms in Vermont while the right wing crackpots figure out how to extract money from gullible and frightened people by peddling stories that are so outlandish that it tends to isolate those who hear them since they can't explain or talk about the information with normal people. It is a cult of misinformation complete with shaming of wavering members and fear of doomsday and the other. Biden and Fauchi and your local doctor didn't lie. It's just that the truth was not as exciting as a second Civil War.

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