The Coronavirus

[Eric the Green]

(09-03-2020, 12:29 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-03-2020, 10:30 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-03-2020, 05:45 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The AP is reporting that the US health agencies are getting ready to release a vaccine just before the election.  There is conjecture that this is a political decision, that Trump's political people so much want a miracle to happen, for the bug to just go away, that they are going to override the medical people.

The medical profession and (due to vulnerability from lawsuits) pharmaceutical industry insist upon "safe and effective" treatments. The politicians who know about as much about medicine and medical research as they know about quantum mechanics (usually nothing) may insist upon pushing miracles. (It may be surprising, but some of the most advanced medical activity is in veterinary care). 

Good administrative techniques could have done far more good than any questionable miracles. Rushed vaccines and medications are ordinarily worthless or inexcusably harmful. We know Trump's record on many things: he is one of the biggest poseurs ever, and poseurs rarely get good results.

I've heard there's several vaccines that are very promising that were entering their final phase of testing about a month ago and the federal government had placed a massive order as well. I don't know if the Democratic party and all their media outlets wanted you to know that or not at the time or at this point either and prefers to keep its voters out of the loop for personal/political reasons of its own. Why are you guys so deaf, dumb and blind and seem so aloof and out of the loop when it comes to knowledge of important information that relates to an issue that scares Democratic voters and empowers Democratic regimes so much these days.

It seems to me that a lot of the same folks who defy orders to social distance and wear masks and who go to protest rallies against shutdowns are also those who deny the safety and effectiveness of all vaccines, and will refuse to take them. And they are all part of Trump's base, which is full of conspiracy theory believers like Trump himself. I would not rule out that Trump will also politicize vaccines, and flip and waffle on them as he has on masks and social distancing in order to please his base of voters. He would also be incompetent as a distributor of vaccines, as he has been as a distributor of protective equipment and testing, and make them expensive and less available to poor people where covid is most virulent. 

The result of re-electing Trump would be to keep the pandemic going and keep us all in the covid prison indefinitely.