SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net 1 year ago
My wife was pressured to get the shot early on in her pregnancy, and she refused. Of course we took all the measures to make sure she didn’t get sick during pregnancy, but in the end I’m so thankful she went that way. Our son has transformed our lives, we didn’t want to take a risk on an untested experimental drug.
Expecting mothers can’t use hardly any routinely prescribed drugs. Most of them aren’t approved for use on pregnant women and cannot be approved for use on pregnant women because testing drugs that might harm a fetus isn’t ethical.
Anyone saying they knew it was safe and had tested it thoroughly in this instance is clearly wrong. It takes 9 months to make a baby, and it takes a long term to complete long term testing. Put it together, and corners were definitely cut.
America doesn’t have a universal healthcare system for people, but it has a long-standing public healthcare system for corporations, and I’m certain that the corners that were cut (that I should remind everyone they aren’t liable for in the least thanks to the laws around it) helped the quarterly reports of the drug companies greatly, thank goodness! Could you imagine if the multinational drug companies had some trouble because of the global pandemic? What would our society even look like!