It seems hard but it's fucking simple Simple technology, simple deployment, simple logistical problem Test everyone as much as you can, lock down every place you can't test everyone, when your tests find the virus put the infected person in a box
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It doesn't take any special tricks or supercomputers or novel drug patents or anything It's easy, it's idiot-proof, anyone can do it You just have to ACTUALLY DO IT Don't tell me you can't do it, Taiwan DID do it
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Compare that to Bill Gates' "optimistic" projection that we'll have a vaccine and get the virus under control that way by the end of 2021 You hear that everyone? Q4 2021, everything will be okay, mark your calendars 12-15 more fucking months of this shit
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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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If we had adequate testing, tracing and containment early on there would never have been a need for mass lockdown
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