1/ Where is the evidence the vaccines will save anyone's life?

It's not in the clinical trials.

I want to tell a story. It's about heart disease. https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1351211592831131648

2/ For generations heart disease has killed more people in the world than anything else. In the 1970, 700,000 Americans died of it, at a time when the US population was barely 200 million.

By then, researchers were realizing cholesterol played a crucial role in heart disease...

3/ And looking for drugs that might reduce cholesterol levels (especially "bad," or LDL, cholesterol). They realized that the liver produced cholesterol and searched for compounds that might interfere with that synthesis...

4/ And by 1978, Merck had found a compound called lovastatin, which helped block the liver's chemical pathway to cholesterol production.

But despite the horrific toll from heart disease, we DIDN'T immediately insist that everyone in the world take lovastatin...

5/ It took NINE years before lovastatin was even approved for sale (as Mevacor, in 1987), and many, many more years and carefully conducted clinical trials that PROVED statins reduced heart attacks and deaths before statins became standard clinical practice...

6/ And many, many people whom statins might have saved DIED from heart disease over that period. That's the cost of waiting for the science and medicine to mature. But the benefit is incalculable. PHYSICIANS DON'T HAVE TO GUESS. WE DON'T HAVE TO GUESS. We know these drugs work...

7/ And we can prescribe them confidently to tens of millions of Americans every year. And guess what? Heart disease deaths plunged between 1990 and 2010 despite rising obesity (cutting smoking may have helped too).

WARP SPEED is a Star Trek fantasy... https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/05/01/cdc-us-deaths-from-heart-disease-cancer-on-the-rise

8/ This is not to say the mRNA vaccines may not ultimately cut deaths. But we didn't test the right people (people at high risk), we didn't test long enough, and so WE ARE GUESSING AND HOPING.

And that's a bad place to be when we're telling billions of people to be vaccinated.