https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article248194995.html (Turns out it was a HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE letting them expire intentionally!)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kentucky-residents-luck-into-getting-covid-vaccine-walgreens-didn-t-want-to-expire/ar-BB1ckaIn
Capitalist efficiency babyyy. You just know this shit is happening everywhere.
I also heard Terrance on trillbillies say that the US is on track to achieve hers immunity via vaccine in SEVEN YEARS (I couldn’t find whatever source he was talking about though) u/an_engel_on_earth provided the source. Grim stuff.
Meanwhile all the ghouls got it on like the 1st of December “to inspire confidence in the vaccine” :agony-consuming:
Yeah, it's based on old french principles though so it's really hard to implement.
Well no, it's a very good system it just requires a lot of mass support and action.
Macron is the result of miltary officers threatening a coup over Algeria and demanding De Gaulle return.
It's the fucking reactionaries again.
Well duh? You can't jump the line you greedy bastard.
I can't believe daddy Cuomo didn't win Time's Person of the Year for his outstanding handling of this pandemic!
If you promise not to be mean to Mr. Cuomo (or any Dems you cheeky fuck!!!) maybe he'll be nice enough to give you an expired dose.
That's one where I'd want to see how the executive order is written. Consider that both of these can be portrayed by hostile media as what you're saying:
- "Anyone who gives an unapproved person the vaccine, no matter the reason, is fined one million dollars and loses their medical license, full stop."
- "If you give an unapproved person the vaccine, you could be fined up to one million dollars, and you could be subjected to punishments up to and including losing your medical license. But if approved people don't show and you give soon-to-expire vaccines to high-risk groups, that's OK."
Cuomo's a shithead, but it's extremely easy to imagine a more defensible version of that rule and it being reported as draconian anyway.
In that case, presenting it like this is absolutely bad, if only because -- whatever the reality of the application of this policy -- it'll scare some healthcare workers into letting doses expire.
okay, now there's definitely no excuse to not searching for a viable method of getting the vaccine from literally anywhere other than the west
Even the British vaccine would do, although TERF Island is probably going to fuck up worst than the US somehow.
And only American innovation can produce not one but two vaccines that have to be stored in a hospital freezer or on dry ice; while the rest of the world can somehow make several vaccines that can be stored in a regular fridge.
Well the UK has already been fucking up their rollout and now have a policy of mixing and matching different vaccines if you can't get a second dose of the first one you got, are currently reaching daily highs of case numbers , have people holding anti-lockdown protests outside of COVID wards, and hospital staff are being threatened with sackings and loss of funding if they break from the Government comms strategy (lol remember how people complain about how China is lying about their COVID response . Safe to say it's going swimmingly in wonderful Britannia.
I think it's much more likely that they thought that different vaccine types may not work so they put a bunch of money into each one, and the pfizer mRNA one got all the media attention because it's new, had the catchy storage headline, and got trial results out the fastest. Most people in the US in the end are going to probably get the Moderna vaccine which is still mRNA but can be stored in a normal fridge for like a month (why the moderna one doesn't need to be stored super cold, idk, I think it's because Moderna has better tech from doing mRNA research longer and created a more stable compound, travesty of the free market that they aren't required to share that shit so pfizer can make a more stable vaccine).
This is fucking hilarious. We live in a simulation, and we're going to have to deal with this for the next 10 fucking years at the very least, thanks to the absurd speed of mutations. :agony-deep:
I believe "seven years" is from this article by mah boi David wallace-Wells https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americas-vaccine-rollout-disaster.html
full quote "How badly are we doing? In September, President Trump promised 100 million vaccinations by the end of the year. As a country, we have only 40 million doses, and had aimed, according to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, to vaccinate 20 million by year-end. That’s bad enough. But we have administered only 2 million of those — barely 10 percent of the goal. At this rate, achieving sufficient vaccination to reach herd immunity and bring the pandemic to a close in the U.S. will take about seven years."
And that's assuming that there won't be another strain of COVID that isn't affected by the vaccine?
In theory, manufacture and distribution will scale up over time.
In practice, I suspect we'll continue to trip over our own dicks.
damn that would be a great source for radicalization if anyone could find it
engel_on_earth posted it in the thread: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americas-vaccine-rollout-disaster.html
I guess 2021 is gonna be exactly like 2020 then since most people won't get vaccinated
If they were first in line I would be way more skeptical about the vaccine
Ever the tough guy; America decides it doesn't need the Vaccine to get well; America will cure itself by sheer will!
I just saw an article that said 10 years.
Which is functionally never. We don't even really know the window this gives us.
I'm really considering bailing to Canada to get it.
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Create a life-saving necessity at Warp Speed
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Demand market rates for sale to Monopsony buyer
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Treatments expire quickly if not kept in extreme conditions
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Buyer is constantly restocking expired treatments, driving profits through the roof
Capitalism, Baby!
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capitalism gives us nothing. it keeps all our shit hostage, and would rather burn it to the fucking ground than give us scraps.
also: americans are filthy plague rats and this will never improve until they're all fucking dead.
