COVID-19 - On the Ground

[Deleted User 863]

I don't hate much of anyone, but I am also in the camp who wouldn't be a test dummy for vaccines. But not because I think it's unsafe.

I don't think you're stupid for doing it. You'll be fine. I am sure it's an interesting experience. Good luck!

Besides organ donation, participation in a clinical trial is one of the most noble and selfless acts a person can do. As a professional in the biopharmaceutical industry, I believe that everyone should be eternally grateful to these participants for the therapies they have come to rely upon.

I know you’re probably just trying to be funny and take a jab at a fellow board member but it’s also apparent that you (and a majority of the population) are unaware and blissfully ignorant of the courage it takes, especially for an unpaid healthy volunteer, to be a subject in a clinical trial. Above all, participation in a trial for deadly diseases like cancer is the only hope for for future patients. The participants know that the chances of being successfully treated is low but the chance that the drug/therapy being tested could lead to something promising is real.

Sorry if my post came across that way.

I was not trying to be funny. I am also eternally grateful for those who participate in these types of trials and research. I personally just don't have the courage or desire to do so.

[jhawks99]

i am participating in 4 different clinical trials right now. and on jury duty. and block captain for my neighborhood watch. and, already this morning, i helped 3 old people cross the street.

Don't forget surveying the folks at the mall.

[ousdahl]

[randylahey]

[KUTradition]

[Shirley]

^^^

[jhawks99]

Rand Paul...
Giggle

[Sparko]

Rand Paul is antithetical to truth. His neighbor whaling on him was the only worthwhile headline he has genereated.

[MICHHAWK]

I would vote for rand paul.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Of course you would.

[Sparko]

I would vote for rand paul.

He voted to take away your infrastructure, pension, and livelihood. Seems like a good trade.

[Overlander]

I would vote for rand paul.

He voted to take away your pension.

Pension? You think Mich has a pension?

[jfish26]

I would vote for rand paul.

He voted to take away your pension.

Pension? You think Mich has a pension?

I would bet so.

[ousdahl]

But I thought Mich has boasted about his 401k

[Deleted User 863]

Do you guys think this type of rhetoric was problematic knowing what we know now?

[Sparko]

Conspiracy dudes gonna conspiracy.

[PhDhawk]

Do you guys think this type of rhetoric was problematic knowing what we know now?

If those were all said pre-omicron, then no.

[TDub]

of course. it was damaging then and ridiculous now. Ridiculous things that were being said.....yes....by both sides. It was..(and looking at this board, continues to be) a political game as much as it was anything else.

Everyone, and yes...even politicians (particularly the terrible public speakers) should shut the fuck up and read, listen, wait for information prior to spouting off to the first microphone or tweeter, they see.

[MICHHAWK]

that was like the Greatest Hits of dumb@$$e$.

[MICHHAWK]

i can't believe we didn't just pick those people up and hurl them. into the water. off the bridge.






someday we are going to be able to look back on that episode and laugh at ourselves.