09-03-2020, 01:05 PM
(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.
"You have heard"? I doubt that you have insider information. Maybe some stock tout has offered such questionable information, or some propagandist tied to Donald Trump.
When there is a safe and effective treatment (really unlikely for a virus unless one has a reliable means of harvesting antibodies -- viruses do not respond to antibiotics) or an effective vaccine, it is most likely that we will know that Joseph R. Biden is scheduled to become the 46th President of the United States or that he will already be such. Medical research has no cure for cancer, although it has been able to improve treatments to improve the quality of life for patients. Let us not forget that there is also a group of diseases (Parkinsonism, Alzheimer's, and Lewy-body dementia) for which medical research is underway but far from ready. But should there be a treatment for such it will not be the politicians who get the glory.
Donald Trump's handling of COVID-19 is a disgrace, if not an outright crime.
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.