The Covid-19 Vaccine - My thoughts and why they shouldn't matter to you
What do you think about the vaccine? | The end of the sofa scientist… or did it even exist?
Elliott Reid, Osteopath and founder of the Revitalize Clinic which has provided over 6500 clients with osteopathy, physiotherapy, sports therapy, personal training, counselling, herbal medicine and more
“What do you think about the virus, Elliott. What did you think about the vaccine?”
It takes me back to a conversation I had with my friend, Dan. He’s an aerospace engineer. He summarised to be so well that, “long gone are the times where people can create society changing intervention without a long process of developing expertise…”
I wonder if that has ever been the case in modern history. The early founders of psychology, osteopathy were medical doctors first. An apple didn’t fall in sight of an unqualified man, it fell in front of an already expert, Isaac Newton. Despite this story being a myth, we fall in love with it.
Just like we love to hear the story of the drop out entrepreneur who started a business from his garage. But we pay little attention to the fact that to own a house big enough with a garage in California, he was probably already living in a multi-million pound household.
It tells us that anyone with a hint of inspiration can do good. And we can. But when something has killed over 1.5million people worldwide, we need to rely on a better stock of individuals than anyone with a facebook account.
And we do this every day. We trust our cars not to explode, our tap water to be clean, our food to not harm us. So why do we distrust scientists with decades of experience, and studies with over 30,000 participants with results of a 90%+ success rate to eradicate a virus and enable us to return to normality.
To rely on laymen, is a return to tribalism. To stand on the shoulders of giants is staying true to civilisation.
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