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Originally Posted by Cherie

The question is phrased in the present tense...are they ‘doing’ a good job

iI had someone fitting my kitchen and they were currently doing a great job and I was asked what kind of job were they doing...what would I say?

As it stands yes the kitchen fitter is doing a great job

Yes I could speculate that down the line he might blow the electrics but that would be speculation and unfair as currently there is no indication that might happen

If a surgeon operates on you and does a great job, but you pick up an infection when you get home it doesn’t take away that that initially the surgery went well

we're not talking about a surgery that's complete and something might go wrong later, we're looking at a patient still on the table with their ribs cracked open. You can say that everything seems to be going fine, but you can't say it's a good job until you have some evidence that it's a good job.

In terms of vaccines, we know that they are currently doing a QUICK job, and we HOPE that the outcome is going to be good. Certainly, I'm not saying there's any evidence that the outcome won't be positive. I'm just saying there's no way to know either way. Saying they're "doing a good job" is at best observational guesswork. It's fine that some people are OK with that and comfortable declaring that a good job... but I personally want to see the outcome of "a good job" before I confidently declare it "a good job". Again I have no problem with others thinking this is a good job - I have a problem with certain people "pushing for an answer" to try to smugly railroad others into declaring it a good job, when there are perfectly valid reasons for not wanting to answer that question yet.