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FakeNoose

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5. I would have done the same if I'd been chosen for testing

Reply to MisterNiceKitty (Original post)

Mon Aug 30, 2021, 01:22 PM

Aug 2021

They were looking for volunteers for the testing program in Pittsburgh about a year and a half ago. I put my name in because I thought I'd be a good candidate - almost 70 years old, no health issues, not a smoker, and I hadn't been exposed or infected by Covid.

For whatever reason, I wasn't chosen for the program. However if I had been chosen, I still would have wanted to receive the vaccine even if I got the placebo in the test. It only makes sense. Otherwise why would anyone volunteer to be a guinea pig?

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Long-Term Studies Of COVID-19 Vaccines Hurt By Placebo Recipients Getting Immunized [View all] MisterNiceKitty Aug 2021 OP

True enough, but it would have been beyond unethical not to... This is standard practice in clinical hlthe2b Aug 2021 #1

Is this where serum studies become dominant in understanding longevity of immunity? Pobeka Aug 2021 #6

It will be important but we need a lot more basic research on the antibody response... hlthe2b Aug 2021 #9

Thanks for the detailed response. Makes sense to me. Pobeka Aug 2021 #11

Anti-Vax polemicist says what? FrankBooth Aug 2021 #2

! progressoid Aug 2021 #3

Why post a six-month-old story now, when so much has changed? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2021 #4

there's a follow-up at the link MisterNiceKitty Aug 2021 #7

I would have done the same if I'd been chosen for testing FakeNoose Aug 2021 #5

This article is over 6 months old, and has been superceded by reality. ms liberty Aug 2021 #8

There is a follow up at the link MisterNiceKitty Aug 2021 #10

Which adds little more than the original. LanternWaste Aug 2021 #12