About a year ago, in March of 2020 I believe, Trump mentioned he wanted prayers because he was about to make the most difficult decision of his life.
Any spectulation of what that was?
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When I said it's basically a flu shot, I meant it in the sense that we have a new virus, and they developed a vaccine for it, like they do each year with the seasonal flu.
You are of course, correct: the cold is not the flu, or vice-versa. If anyone took that from my statement, that was not my intention. I was trying to answer the question of what did I think the vaccine was, (I was asked was it saline, etc.) I was trying to make a comparison of it as being similar to the seasonal flu vaccine.
Sorry, I misunderstood your point.
If I understand, you mean that it is in fact a vaccine against coronavirus.
The authorities claim this is the case, and that it specifically targets the spike protein of the SARS 2 virus.
I believe both of those claims - but I am skeptical that the resulting vaccine is safe.
Flu vaccines based on well-tested platforms (tested over many years) and are annually updated with new strains. According to VAERS the flu vaccine is pretty safe. I'm not a fan of these for various reasons, but they don't seem that overtly harmful.
If we take the authorities story at face value: The new coronavirus vaccines are a new vaccine on a new platform with no long term studies in humans. They work using a very different mechanism from flu shots, which could reasonably be expected to cause problems (and indeed VAERS is a train wreck).
The vaccines used in the US are (claimed to be) based on mRNA or adenovirus vectored DNA platforms, which have never been approved for use in any product. I believe the Chinese vaccine is a killed or inactivated whole virus type vaccine which would be closer in mechanism to typical flu shots.