I'm not saying that it should be banned -- at least not until extensive, honestly assessed testing shows that it ought to be banned. I'm saying that I personally will have nothing to do with mRNA technology. At 62 I've already lived a good share of my potential life span, and I'm comfortable with the fact that I'm going to die of something or other one of these days; that inevitably shapes my attitude.

I do think that this, and all pharmaceuticals, need rigorous testing and systematic monitoring after approval; that anyone who is offered them needs also to be offered accurate, detailed information on their side effects and actual effectiveness; and that anyone who pushes a pharmaceutical that kills people, under any conditions other than fully informed consent from the patients, should be tried by a jury of their peers and, if found guilty, hanged by the neck until dead. But that's just my opinion.