I don't want to fucking hear any shit about how what we're going through in the US was inevitable and the quarantine/containment strategy was an impossible dream I have relatives in Taiwan who are going to work at the office, going out to eat, hanging out in bars
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And he DOESN'T ACTUALLY KNOW You CAN'T know, that's not how the world works -- you don't know if a vaccine is even possible or not until you've actually made one And we know that coronaviruses as a family are notoriously difficult to attack directly
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They've never made a successful human coronavirus in the past -- SARS-1 has no vaccine, MERS has no vaccine Those epidemics just burned themselves out and they were like "Oh well"
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They shouldn't even have been talking about a vaccine It led us directly down this horrible garden path, along with the incredibly irresponsible hoaxmongering about hydroxychloroquine
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The idea of a "cure" or of "herd immunity" being like "Well if I really floor it, maybe I can drive all the way *through* the lake and out the other side" Maybe, or maybe your engine's electrical system will short out and you'll drown You don't even know how deep the lake is
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We had ONE KNOWN PATH, one surefire way to NOT be in the situation we were in now, one way to hit the brakes, jerk the steering wheel around and drive in another direction, and we fucking squandered it
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All the fucking assholes bleating about how expensive lockdown and containment was It's expensive and it's hard and it was THE ONLY POSSIBLE CHOICE
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ICYMI, Trump has decided we’ll have a vaccine ready for Election Day *this* year, even if it means skipping Phase 3 safety/efficacy trials — the same way Russia did with theirs.https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/health/cdc-covid-19-vaccine-distribution/index.html …
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12-15 more months of a thousand covid deaths per day. Trump forced the CDC to pretend it's only 60 as if even that was ok. Many countries haven't had 60 deaths total.
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seems optimistic
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Conspiracy theorists will have 15 months to plan their disinformation campaign around how the vaccine runs on 5G or something.
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