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.

  • an_engel_on_earth [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    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."

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      And that's assuming that there won't be another strain of COVID that isn't affected by the vaccine?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      In theory, manufacture and distribution will scale up over time.

      In practice, I suspect we'll continue to trip over our own dicks.