Some thoughts on covid 19 restrictions

Glad to hear you had your booster shot, TJ. I did wonder if you would get it as scheduled.
For anyone worried about getting a vaccine--please don't be and rest assured. Only those people who already know they are likely to have a bad reaction to things, especially to the point of carrying an epi-pen in case of a severe allergic reaction, need to let their doctor know about that and discuss whether or not they should have the vaccine or not. All other adults will most likely be fine with a vaccine jab. For any concerned that a single jab might not work, I think I remember that the effectiveness of the first jab in the testing was something like 70 percent, which is 70 percent better than you might have without any vaccine injections at all. The second jab then boosts things to a bit higher level--anything is better than nothing. Also, remember that of everyone in the trial, of those few who had a reaction to the virus subsequent to having the vaccine jab, NO ONE had a severe reaction to the virus. Please ignore any of the stuff you see on social media--anyone who knows about drug design and testing of new possible drugs has complete confidence in these vaccines which have now been approved. Also, do not be alarmed by the speed at which the vaccines were developed, tested and approved. While normally it can take 10 years more or less to develop a new drug for anything, many companies dropped research on other drugs and threw everything they had, namely most or every drug design team, at finding a vaccine. Also, some of the testing procedures which are usually done in a deliberate order, were done simultaneously. This is a huge risk for a drug company because having thrown resources at developing and testing potential drugs for any purpose, not all of them will work and will have had to be abandoned, something which normally happens all of the time (which is part of the reason why drugs are so expensive), but under normal conditions, if a drug fails at any point in development and/or in testing, and tweaking the drug does not improve the drug's effectiveness, that drug is dropped fairly quickly in preference to heading down other lines of investigation. The testing of the vaccines has been just as rigorous as is normal, but to get a vaccine in the quickest possible time, much work and testing was done at the same time rather than sequentially. This note has been vetted by Mr GB, retired drug designer.