(06-08-2021 02:40 PM)Rice93 Wrote: Well... when you say Thalidomide the obvious association is with birth defects. Not simply "the vaccine failed".
Not obvious to me, sorry. My intent was more to mean, "failed vaccine with harmful side effects," not specifically birth defects.
Incidentally, once on the mid-1980s, I flew back from Boston to Houston. It was a remarkable flight in many respects, but one of them was that my flight was a continuation of a flight from Montreal (and keep in mind that Thalidomide was in wide use in Canada). There was a family in the continuing group across the aisle (wide-body) with two teen-aged sons, one of whom had hands with 6 fingers, basically like a raptor's claws, three fingers on each side. It was remarkable to watch how he ate.
Quote:You wrote, "And the bureaucrats seem to be doing nothing but sitting back and laughing and hoping the vaccines turn into another Thalidomide."
This tells me that you are opining that bureaucrats in general are hoping the vaccine fails (not that there is a small percentage of bureaucrats that might feel that way).
I can get behind your idea that there might be some bureaucrats that wouldn't be sad to see the vaccine fail. My guess is that it's a small subset of them. I doubt there are ANY who would like to see this turn into a thalidomide situation.
I would say that you are very naive when it comes to bureaucrat-think. Maybe not the horrors at the level of Thalidomide, sorry you misinterpreted my comment that way, but there are a goodly number who would be very happy to see it have lasting problems.
"Another Thalidomide," does not mean exactly like Thalidomide in every detail, just similar enough that FDA can use it to justify overly onerous procedures to support overstaffing and overbudgeting for the next 50 years.
When I say, for example, that democrats would like to turn January 6 into another Reichstag Fire, I don't mean that thy want to burn the capitol down, but rather that they want to use it to justify witch hunts and overly onerous security procedures for a decade.