https://xcancel.com/PeterHotez/status/1873162034201960946

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    5 days ago

    I think he is sincere

    Acknowledges COVID, explicitly states they've been prepping for decades; he really does think it'll be different lmao

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      5 days ago

      To be fair, he's right about covid vs. flu. SARS first showed up 2002 with covid popping up in 2019 (maybe 2018), so we only had around a decade and a half of research on prepping for covid.

      20 years compared to 17 years is obviously a ginormous amount of time that totally wasn't why there was research being done on a covid vaccine by the time the pandemic hit. Definitely didn't have any pre-existing knowledge of a SARS variant because you need three years to properly prepare (and by "properly prepare" I mean "do nothing at all because the US doesn't take people's health seriously and Democrats are going to make it a talking point during Trump's admin, rather than potentially making Biden look bad.").