[ExI] Human Challenge Trials

[Mike Dougherty]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 9:22 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 8:38 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> Maybe there is a drug that "helps" but given the overplayed hand of
>> pharma, I'm going to remain skeptical of any single pill or miracle cure. *
>>
>
> I don't understand your point. Why not a miracle cure against COVID-19?
> We've had a "miracle cure", aka a vaccine, against Smallpox for centuries
> and today we have additional "miracle cures" against Polio, Diphtheria,
> Measles, Mumps, Shingles, Tetanus, Chickenpox, Cholera and dozens of other
> deadly diseases, and those vaccines have saved the lives of BILLIONS of
> people over the years. So why not a vaccine against COVID-19 too?
>

Vaccine is not a miracle cure.

I was refering to early blather that hydroxychloroquine would prevent covid
despite no real testing... would be a miracle.  Like snake oil is a
miracle. I never understood why anyone ever needed to oil a snake, but
maybe they dry - I'm no herpetologist

I wouldn't call anything we understand a "miracle"

I don't want to inject anything i don't understand.  Even with
understanding the how/why of vaccines in general,  i don't trust the same
government that is murdering people for having the wrong skin color to be
injecting billions of lowest-bid supplies of version 1 cocktails.

I'll admit to being a jittery paranoid monkey.  I think that trait served
my ancestors well enough that I exist,  so I'll keep it as a feature
instead of a defect.

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