Originally Posted by
dr dre
Mach E Avelli,
The problem is the the tactics anti vaxxers use to trick people is they make their arguments just convincing enough to make people hesitant. If they out and out said “vaccines will make you grow a second head” most people would realise they are nuts.
What they do is dress up their arguments with what just appears to be enough credibility, by taking stats from official sources but using them out of context or not how the authors of the stats intended them to be used.
For instance the post I was replying to contained this statement:
None of these vaccines have been approved. All of them have been given emergency use authorisation.
Legal liability out the window. A formal approval typically requires long term safety data ie a late stage phase 3 dataset. 3 to 5 years.
Soundssort of official and like the poster knows what they’re talking about, right?
Wrong, it’s debunked nonsense:
Were COVID-19 vaccines rushed through approvals or given emergency use authorisations in Australia?
Unfortunately a lot of people can’t differentiate between the two, and even on this forum of supposedly professional pilots a lot of posters seem to regurgitate this stuff (assuming they are professional pilots).
As for flying a specific aircraft; your first job is to read the owner’s instruction manual. Here is Pfizer’s :
http://labeling.pfizer.com/ShowLabel...472&format=pdf
“The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is an unapproved vaccine that may prevent COVID-19. There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19.
The FDA has authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 12 years of age and older under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).“
”Serious and unexpected side effects may occur. Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is still being studied in clinical trials.”
Conclusion: your body, your choice. If anything happens then you’re on your own and nobody will care (not even the government).