Covid-19: American Acceptionalism

Just to remind what it means to develop a vaccin here's the story of the socalled fastest development in history, the mumps vaccine, which in retrospect wasnot fast at all.
https://www.history.com/news/mumps-vaccine-world-war-ii

 

When we people choose to put our shoulders under a project as a unity, we can create great things. If we choose to get divided and get into antagonism while unity is what's being called for, we create disasters.

 

Trump could always give them a shot of hydroxychloroquine with regular gargling of bleach. Lotsa people are doing that.

 

Vaccine development in the last few decades has fallen behind the curve of technology on a wider scale, simply because of funding and political will.

I'm not saying thats right or wrong, as we only have limited resources to spread around.

I mean, whats more important, cancer research or vaccine tech research?

Whats been a more pressing and urgent concern the past decade. Death by cancer or death by virus?

What about other disease like Alzheimers?

I think this pandemic has changed a lot of that now. I also think comparing vaccine development of the past with today, does not really tell the full story.

 

First and foremost, he's a real life successful businessman. Trump is not.

 

No doubt about it. I myself posted a few pages back the call to arms from the Dutch virologist around 2008? iirc.
It still is a daring claim it will be fast tracked that much. We only can hope it materializes.

 

Yes, 100% this. The vaccine research heads at NIH have said exactly this.

They have been closely studying very similar coronaviruses for years.

The only reason the brakes got applied to the SARS vaccine was the realization it wasn't a pressing concern. The stages of transmission and overall fatality assured that viruses own demise at the time.

 

You know the EMA testing is being funded by the Bill and Melinda gates foundation, right?

 

What's your point?

 

or this on a daily basis:

An angry mob in Spokane, WA surrounds a black father & his 2 kids to wrongfully accuse him of stealing pic.twitter.com/ZAyXFsso5Q

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) August 9, 2020

 

Tbh if you heard a woman claiming that someone was driving off in her car what would you do?

 

Sounds like EMA and Gates are on the same page.

 

So you disparage a man over a quibble?

Who do you think EMA talks to? Who do you think Gates talks to?

 

Because he doesn't just give. This isn't about buying a stock and just hoping it goes up and not caring about what it is, or throwing money at a charity and calling it a day. He's directly concerned with the effect his money is having.

 

Actually I was talking about my country although the same things apply. Our Government advised people to return as they knew things may be harder and more expensive down the track, and it turns out they were right. We assisted people to get home for the first couple of months, and those who stayed away for whatever reason (work, family, foreign residency etc) now have to deal with the situation that confronts them. It costs about double or more to get a plane ticket, you may have to buy a higher class of ticket to guarantee a seat, and you will pay between $2000 (single to $4000 (family) for hotel quarantine when you get back. They still have the option of waiting it out where they are if they can.

 

She has also just started an election campaign

 

I can't tell if you're serious or not. $6 bn is invested in vaccines; he has given $45.5 bn to this and other health and education and development-related projects. If you visit the Foundation itself, you can see one of the things they're aiming for: effective, waterless, odorless toilets for poor communities around the world. And if you look at the state of shit around the world, you'll know disposal of it is one of the most serious issues facing the world.

 

Well, you shouldn't have married a Yuropeeeeenian

 

I'm still going to make fun of Windows, though.

Just not on any machine that uses it, because I think that makes it run even slower...

 

Once with a pair of sorority girls, the other time with FC Dallas Fans

 

You’re a missing the point.


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why would he? he has bleach in the WH.

 

I'm not sure why there's an obsession with Lysol, as opposed to any other brand of disinfectant.