I'll definitely get the vaccine but at my daughters' suggestion I'll probably wait a month or so. Let somebody else be the guinea pigs, especially if it is developed in another part of the world with very different demographics.
Having been falsely accused of being part of some, I have zero sympathy for people who believe in conspiracies or propagate them. For instance, the people who allege all sorts of wacky ideas about the Pentagon on 9-11.
For a little humor in this thread, the wackiest was after a Cessna freight hauler like this crashed near Mobile AL in 2002.
After the crash our Regional guy recovered nearly everything from the bay. Seems to me that radar records showed a tight steep spiral, indicating loss of control, and for a Cessna 208 to be this spread means that he was going pretty fast. The horizontal spread of debris implied the pilot had some level of control near the end.
The way the original regional investigator wrote the report had phrases spread in various sections and in summary was something like the airplane had been flying at (iirc) 3,000 ft altitude before the crash, there were red marks on some pieces of wreckage, and an black object stuck in a wing (or words to that effect). Pretty boring factual material buried in a report with lots and lots of other words. Regional investigators always were over-stretched and he put the cause down as being unidentified. The factual portion of his report went through review and was released. No big deal so far, right?
Hidden in those phrases, a word search would pop out "unidentified" and "flying" and "object" if you are a UFO hunter, so that proved beyond a doubt (to them) that we must have been covering up good ol' ET having collided with the Cessna!!! Now I don't have a problem believing that aliens may exist, especially with the Navy F-18 videos recently released, but the thought that little green men would go undetected in that airspace (LOTS of air traffic and military radar of all types) AND somehow be dumb enough to collide with a slow moving freight hauler was a stretch.
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The Director asked me to re-open the investigation and see if we could get a better idea about what happened. Things were going fine till I made the mistake of using the FBI and Air Force labs for specialized exams our lab didn't have equipment for, rather than paying a commercial lab. (The NTSB has a small budget and is part of inter-agency help agreements so we'd use outside labs for FTIR, GCMS, etc.) Well, the involvement of the FBI and military sealed the deal both for the alien hunters PLUS turned on another group of conspiracy types. Now I/we were being accused of supposedly helping the military cover up a military drone running down the poor freight pilot. Another theory was that maybe he collided with a drug smuggler and the other airplane got away, so we were covering that up for law enforcement.
https://www.perdurabo10.net/nightship-282.html
Ya can't make this sh1t up.
In the end, turned out that the Cessna pilot was between layers of low clouds when a DC-10 passed by at an angle with all the lights on. That kind of surprise is definitely attention-getting and happened just before the Cessna pilot told air traffic he'd lost control. Putting the pieces together revealed that when he hit the water the Cessna pilot had just about recovered the airplane from a steep spiral and was nearly wings level which let the airspeed build up when he ran out of altitude. Another couple of hundred feet and he probably would have made it. The red marks on the fuselage were matched to the paint of the tow bar which was kept in a belly pod and the odd piece of black metal was part of a cooling fin from one of the avionics boxes.