By SI Filings
Aug
20
2020
"'A Christian Statement on Science for Pandemic Times' expresses concern for the 'politicization of science in the public square when so many lives are at stake.' Signers pledge to wear masks, get vaccinated and correct misinformation and conspiracy theories." - RNS
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Yeah, sure. No politics here, just science. They sound just like the Governor and Health Secretary.
Accepting an unknown amount of risk
For my part, I can smilingly agree with Paul that Biologos is anything but politically unbiased--but to be fair, if anyone tells me they're unbiased, that's when I touch my right hip pocket to make sure my wallet's still there, if you catch my drift. Everybody's got a bias, it's OK, but you just want to admit yours, and ask that others do the same.
To this point, regarding the possibility of getting vaccinated for it, I am (as an asthmatic who is slightly overweight and diabetic) in a risk category for COVID, so I am inclined to take such a vaccine when it becomes available, if there are reasonable tests of its safety and efficacy--even to the point where I'd consider taking it if the FDA had not completely signed off.
One thing that strikes me here as well is that in cases like this, we're not going to get super high confidence levels because the disease is so new--so instead of having "confidence in science", what we're really doing is going on what we know and making our best guess. And you know what? That's OK. We can proceed to some degree on faith.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.