Yes it’s possible they have “savvy” stock price strategy and legit science. I trust the FDA, we’d hear a whistleblower screaming bloody murder otherwise.
I’ll take whichever is offered to me.
But I’ll happily watch anyone that effed around with the supply chain for personal gain get sent to the guillotine.
The important lesson to learn from how Canadian provinces have dealt with the pandemic is that Newfoundlanders are simply better than everybody else.
Yeah the thing for me is that if you trust Pfizer but not moderna, that makes no sense. Pfizer is no angel. I get trusting neither before just one.
Wow. Talk about having a lot to be thankful errr nominated for
They still think it’s the flu
i think it’s a decent hypothesis that the wh was watching which vaccine will work first, and possibly had a bias towards moderna, which caused the awful decision not to get more doses from pfizer if those became available. of course good government would have still secured those doses even if pfizer was going to be a bit behind moderna, but trmp couldn’t help himself trying to pick a winner.
the problem is not that trmp is a snake oil salesman, but that he gets completely taken by all the snake oil salesmen in his orbit. he’s a classic mark.
The real issue was it’s not an either or proposition. Way over buy and give or sell the excess to countries in need.
of course. the international vaccine market is going to be crazy in the next few years. once western governments stop shelling out billions for their own populations, the poor countries will be looking for cheaper knockoffs by some rogue labs. last scene in pandemic the movie was like the floor of how awful it’s going to get irl.
e.g. sputnik V already had multiple celebrities who got the shot and then tested positive several weeks later. the side effects are not clear yet, noone has developed cancer, but ongoing covid outbreaks are for sure a side effect of an ineffective vaccine.
I am rapidly becoming despondent when I think about our chances as a society. This is from a local FB page:
Americans have always been terrible at math. I mean we quit the metric system because it was too hard LOL.
Did they send a text alert about this? If so I didn’t get it.
Live poker is never going to die.
tbh, there’s a decent chance I’ve played with people on that page…lol
Good read. Pretty awful. Thanks for sharing.
A part of this is that the US already had an infrastructure in place for delivering misinformation. From day one Trumpers were consuming Fox News propaganda denying the existence of the virus and praising Dear Leader for stopping the spread of the evil Chinese Flu that is a Communist plot and also a hoax. Our right wing media is bad but not that bad. But the misinformation has caught on here. Theres a vibrant (albeit smaller) online community of hoax/antivaxx type people now. And last week I got a hard copy of The Epoch Times in my mailbox.
Sister in law gets a pass from the committee. Nikki however…
The right wing media is probably a bigger villain in the Covid mess than even Trump. That’s especially true once it became obvious Trump was getting most of his talking points directly from Fox and worse.
The single craziest thing AM radio and Fox have pulled off over the last 30 years is sowing a complete distrust of the mainstream media sources in a huge % of the population while simultaneously feeding them a never ending string of misinformation and fake news. That is one of the biggest reasons I am on team WAAF. Half the country gets all their news and talking points from these sources. If you try and talk to any of them they literally just uncritically parrot the talking points they heard from these sources as if they are both true and incredible insights. If you point out how that it isn’t based in reality they completely lose it 90% of the time and withdraw back to their safe space of Parler and Sean Hannity and dig farther in.
I’m not really sure it is possible to come back from a country that is 40-50% brainwashed by hardcore right wing propaganda. Like you guys post sometimes go on nextdoor in just about any neighborhood anywhere and it is literal racist moronic psychos pumping out the latest Tucker conspiracy on steroids. It’s terrifying to live surrounded by right wing zombies controlled by their radios and tv sets. I don’t see that getting better either.
Think you might be looking at monthly stats (and even then it’s too high.)
