07-09-2020, 09:41 PM
(07-08-2020, 12:57 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Trump is also pushing for therapeutics or a vaccine. About all that can save him if the polls are correct is hitting a home run before the election comes around. Of course, every Pharma company in the world is trying to hit a home run.
I agree that tension has gone up all around with respect to China, and this seems to have effected even the leaders of the CCP, but I am not seeing how they are planning for a profit yet. They are still in the ‘When in trouble or in doubt, run and circles scream and shout” phase. They are surrounded by trouble spots with no good one to hit.
I am reminded of General Grant. “Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”
It is almost too late for clinical trials to be published for any vaccine before the election.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
