Because USA #1 ldo. Communist Europe just sponges off our innovation.
This is broadly accepted as fact in America, like many other broadly accepted facts in America that are total bullshit.
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IIRC from looking at a chart on this earlier today or late yesterday, the Pfizer vaccine by far looked like it had the smallest amount of public funds invested up front.
Kinda wild the Oxford vaccine is so far behind. Had 3.6 billion in funding and had the most promising data early on IIRC. At least in the media.
American conservatives truly are the most miserable people on Earth
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A promising Australian candidate for a coronavirus vaccine has been abandoned after trial participants returned false HIV positive results.
Australia had previously agreed to buy 51 million doses of the vaccine being developed by Australian firm CSL and the University of Queensland (UQ).
The government said orders of other vaccines would now fill the shortfall.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1338196992632049664?s=20
wow i thought he was older than that
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Ted must be a masochist.
Well even at 99% I don’t think it’s a clear cut call. Really depends on the probabilities you assign to various outcomes, but at the end of the day, I don’t think either approach would be a huge mistake. But I can imagine vaccinating the kids first being slightly higher EV.
But if we move it to 95%, then I think that vaccinating yourselves before your kids is the correct move. But also not a huge mistake the other way.
It sounds like the most EV move is getting the kids out of that day care.
We can’t opt out of daycare without opting out of employment. No way can both of us work from home with two needy toddlers around. And, there’s no way that one of the girls gets it and doesn’t give it to at least one of us if not both, between being contagious prior to symptoms and the unavoidable need for extended intimate contact that would require health care grade PPE to try to avoid infection from. In order to justify prioritizing our vaccination over the kids, you have to assign a pretty big probability that they don’t give it to us when they get it, and I’m just not seeing it.
This is probably going to sound flippant, but I’d just opt out of employment in that case.
Of course I’m sure you have considered this and all other possible solutions (e.g. live in nanny) and you have dismissed them for a variety of reasons. So I’m not really trying to convince you of anything. I have every confidence that you have given the matter proper consideration and have made the best decision possible.
I don’t think you need to do that at all. In fact, all of my prior posts assume a near 100% transmission rate in this scenario. If your kids are 20x more likely to get it than you, but you are substantially more than 20x more likely to die or develop some serious long term shit, that already makes it close. Obviously the analysis requires many more factors than this.
At 99% that 20x shifts to ~100X, but depending on your ages and health status, it could still be close.
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I thought I saw they weren’t letting kids get the vaccines.
Yeah, me too, didn’t realise young kids were even participating in trials and thought the main aim of the vaccine was to reduce the number of deaths
Well like, they aren’t letting any of us get them from many months anyway.
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I think this is the first head of state to die from covid.
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1338247233226072071
More like herd immunity doesn’t work but yeah, that will be the story.
What is the consensus here on this? Do you agree with the policy?
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No problem. It’s reasonable that some parents won’t be able to achieve compliance masking their two year old, but if you can’t, you don’t receive carriage if that is the airline’s policy imo.
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But a lifetime ban? I expect this decision to be reversed.
I mean i don’t find the legal aspect interesting. I’m sure whatever their policies are they can enforce them. I’m talking about the policy, the situation in hand and their decision to take them off the plane.