Given that it typically takes years to develop a vaccine, the timetable for the initiative, called Operation Warp Speed, was incredibly ambitious.That's pretty much of a "no shit, bucko" for me. If a vaccine is released this year, I plan not to take it, not until what essentially will be the phase four trials are done.
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It escaped no one that the proposed deadline also intersected nicely with President Trump’s need to curb the virus before the election in November.
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Under constant pressure from a White House anxious for good news and a public desperate for a silver bullet to end the crisis, the government’s researchers are fearful of political intervention in the coming months and are struggling to ensure that the government maintains the right balance between speed and rigorous regulation, according to interviews with administration officials, federal scientists and outside experts.
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Despite concerted efforts by the Trump administration and a bevy of pharmaceutical companies it is working with, the original October target has slipped, with the administration now pushing to have hundreds of millions of doses available by the end of the year or early 2021.
But experts inside and outside the government still say they fear the White House will push the Food and Drug Administration to overlook insufficient data and give at least limited emergency approval to a vaccine, perhaps for use by specific groups like front-line health care workers, before the vote on Nov. 3.
And this is why: The Prince of Merde, fresh off his efforts to bring a lasting peace to the Middle East, will have his grubby fingerprints all over it:
The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, who is helping to steer the re-election campaign from the White House, is a regular participant in meetings of a board formed to oversee the vaccine effort.This whole project has been rife with insider influence and stinks of corruption.
The vaccines pushed by Trump have the potential to be like his favorite drug, hydroxychloraquine: Ineffective and dangerous.
So take the Trump vaccine to cure the Trump Virus at your own peril.
That would be sweet (but sad) Karma, if his "rushed" vaccine starts killing people on its own, just in time for election day.
ReplyDeleteI remember a movie where Will Smith developed some "vaccine" for something, that as a side effect turned people into nocturnal zombies. I can only imagine this being our chance at that.
We need to start our Virus attack by getting rid of Donny first.
w3ski
I Am Legend.
ReplyDeleteNominally I vax!,, However I also know from testing electronic gear
ReplyDeleteor worse software being a beta tester with your life is not a great
idea. I'll wait, thank you.
The reason vaccines take so long to develop is testing. First rounds
are to insure its not toxic (or the base its in) or causes the disease.
Next round is to prove it provides the desired immunity and that it
is lasting. The last and its happened before is that the immunity does
not cause other disease. All that testing takes time.
The worst possible effect of the vaccine is its a dud after claiming
it works. Reason for that is people that have taken it will return
to normal with diminished safety precautions or none and acquire
it and get ill and likely die do to higher exposure.
With the boy idiot and his toxic parent its all too likely that
would be the case with the rush to result.
There would be no karma, those that deserve will not be injured
and have gotten away with genocide. The heirs of the dead might
get revenge.
Yes, there are more than a few dystopian SF that address the subject.
Eck!
Trump & Family, Pence & Family, Entire White House Staff & Families, Cabinet members and families, and et al first. Put up or shut up Fools.
ReplyDeleteNot putting my family on the line for these iDJiTs.
Someone's sniffing glue ... If they think I, or my children, or my grandchildren and most likely the rest of the family are going to submit to a novel, a new, vaccination for a novel, a never before seen by humans, virus that’s been rushed to market in under six months by this administration. Not gonna’ happen.
ReplyDeleteI can remember Nixon declaring The War, Our War, the one we dropped the ball on on stopping War after it was "over", cut our hair finished our law degrees bought BMWs and half-million dollar houses on the hill, in the nights leading up to his 1972 re-election, people throwing Extra! Extra! Read All About It! special edition newspapers out car windows. I was... recovering, at Ft Dix, still a little ahhh, resentful about that. Anything that hits the streets Twixt now and November is sunshine up your tailpipe, and I don't mean the groovy stuff. It ain't Jet-A, though it might be, I hear the Ruskies brew Vodka out of it.
This "October Surprise" will be the penultimate test of just how stupid, just how sucked in the rubes that are, or maybe just how your average "American" really are.
I'll take it when it's right, but don't forget that even if it is right, it's not going to make covid just go away.
ReplyDeleteA "successful" vaccine will most likely make about six in ten people who take it immune from infection for about a year. And also make those who get infected anyway avoid some of the more extreme symptoms, and thus be less likely to die from it.
But those lasting effects discussed in the prior post?
Nobody knows.
Yet.
So yeah, let's just thoroughly test the vaccine like we would for any other vaccine.
Ensuring there are the proper resources to do so when they are needed will speed up the process as much as it can safely be sped up.
Maybe if they get it through their heads that public safety is the whole point of a vaccine, they can be browbeaten into if not doing the right thing, at least not doing the wrong thing again.
Color me skeptical about that last part.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Also, these vaccines are being made by a method never before used for making vaccines for people (mRNA). This is a vast science project.
ReplyDeleteI choose not to be a lab rat for Trump.
One of my meds is a modified RNA product, and it took about 7 years to nail down...and that was with an already proven method. For more fun, the October surprise would have to occur before mid-September because of the number of people voting early.
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