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    The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    In the continued fall out from the Hand Maiden judge, people are sick at the school she sends her kids to, the same kids she had at the white house without masks.

    She says she had it in the summer, right? Did her kids not get it too? I guess everyone manages their families in different ways, but I can't imagine someone getting it in our house (or, for that matter, most people I know), without everyone else getting it.

    I honestly haven't been following developments in understanding of transmission, for some time, but can someone who's had it still be a spreader again; particularly so soon?

    I'm not trying to imply that it might not be a big deal, because it is a big deal, whether or not they've had it, even if it's purely a matter of example and modeling good behavior. I'm just genuinely curious about if we know to any degree, if the kids are probably not at risk for spreading it, or even catching it again, or whether or not it's just stupidity all around, everywhere, by everyone.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    In the continued fall out from the Hand Maiden judge, people are sick at the school she sends her kids to, the same kids she had at the white house without masks.

    She says she had it in the summer, right? Did her kids not get it too? I guess everyone manages their families in different ways, but I can't imagine someone getting it in our house (or, for that matter, most people I know), without everyone else getting it.

    I honestly haven't been following developments in understanding of transmission, for some time, but can someone who's had it still be a spreader again; particularly so soon?

    I'm not trying to imply that it might not be a big deal, because it is a big deal, whether or not they've had it, even if it's purely a matter of example and modeling good behavior. I'm just genuinely curious about if we know to any degree, if the kids are probably not at risk for spreading it, or even catching it again, or whether or not it's just stupidity all around, everywhere, by everyone.

    She believes a party that believes it doesn't infect the young. I mean hell Katie Miller got covid back in the spring and her husband just caught it recently.

    Basically she's got shit judgement and possibly infected her own kids for a chance to rip healthcare and abortions from people.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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    TetraNitroCubaneTetraNitroCubane The Djinnerator At the bottom of a bottleRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    In the continued fall out from the Hand Maiden judge, people are sick at the school she sends her kids to, the same kids she had at the white house without masks.


    Amy Coney Barrett took her children to the White House to meet Trump & Melania (both now have Covid-19).

    Barrett did not have her kids wear masks & then sent at least 1 of them back to school.

    Now the school has a teacher and other students with Covid.

    Horrible judgment.

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    The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    In the continued fall out from the Hand Maiden judge, people are sick at the school she sends her kids to, the same kids she had at the white house without masks.

    She says she had it in the summer, right? Did her kids not get it too? I guess everyone manages their families in different ways, but I can't imagine someone getting it in our house (or, for that matter, most people I know), without everyone else getting it.

    I honestly haven't been following developments in understanding of transmission, for some time, but can someone who's had it still be a spreader again; particularly so soon?

    I'm not trying to imply that it might not be a big deal, because it is a big deal, whether or not they've had it, even if it's purely a matter of example and modeling good behavior. I'm just genuinely curious about if we know to any degree, if the kids are probably not at risk for spreading it, or even catching it again, or whether or not it's just stupidity all around, everywhere, by everyone.

    She believes a party that believes it doesn't infect the young. I mean hell Katie Miller got covid back in the spring and her husband just caught it recently.

    Basically she's got shit judgement and possibly infected her own kids for a chance to rip healthcare and abortions from people.

    I know she has stupid beliefs. I'm just asking if the medical and scientific understanding of how the virus is transmitted, particularly by people who have already been infected, indicates that this specific issue indicates irresponsibility because they could potentially still transmit, or irresponsibility simply because they're setting a stupid shitty example (or both!).

    I mean, we know she had it; or at least we know she claims to have. But do we know if her kids/husband did, also?

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    MorganVMorganV Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    In the continued fall out from the Hand Maiden judge, people are sick at the school she sends her kids to, the same kids she had at the white house without masks.

    She says she had it in the summer, right? Did her kids not get it too? I guess everyone manages their families in different ways, but I can't imagine someone getting it in our house (or, for that matter, most people I know), without everyone else getting it.

    I honestly haven't been following developments in understanding of transmission, for some time, but can someone who's had it still be a spreader again; particularly so soon?

    I'm not trying to imply that it might not be a big deal, because it is a big deal, whether or not they've had it, even if it's purely a matter of example and modeling good behavior. I'm just genuinely curious about if we know to any degree, if the kids are probably not at risk for spreading it, or even catching it again, or whether or not it's just stupidity all around, everywhere, by everyone.

    She believes a party that believes it doesn't infect the young. I mean hell Katie Miller got covid back in the spring and her husband just caught it recently.

    Basically she's got shit judgement and possibly infected her own kids for a chance to rip healthcare and abortions from people.

    I dunno about the rest of you, but that's a trait I want on a lifetime judicial appointment.

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    TastyfishTastyfish Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Preacher wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    In the continued fall out from the Hand Maiden judge, people are sick at the school she sends her kids to, the same kids she had at the white house without masks.

    She says she had it in the summer, right? Did her kids not get it too? I guess everyone manages their families in different ways, but I can't imagine someone getting it in our house (or, for that matter, most people I know), without everyone else getting it.

    I honestly haven't been following developments in understanding of transmission, for some time, but can someone who's had it still be a spreader again; particularly so soon?

    I'm not trying to imply that it might not be a big deal, because it is a big deal, whether or not they've had it, even if it's purely a matter of example and modeling good behavior. I'm just genuinely curious about if we know to any degree, if the kids are probably not at risk for spreading it, or even catching it again, or whether or not it's just stupidity all around, everywhere, by everyone.

    She believes a party that believes it doesn't infect the young. I mean hell Katie Miller got covid back in the spring and her husband just caught it recently.

    Basically she's got shit judgement and possibly infected her own kids for a chance to rip healthcare and abortions from people.

    I know she has stupid beliefs. I'm just asking if the medical and scientific understanding of how the virus is transmitted, particularly by people who have already been infected, indicates that this specific issue indicates irresponsibility because they could potentially still transmit, or irresponsibility simply because they're setting a stupid shitty example (or both!).

    I mean, we know she had it; or at least we know she claims to have. But do we know if her kids/husband did, also?

    She probably lives in a house where it would be possible to self isolate (spare bedroom with a bathroom).

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    LilnoobsLilnoobs Alpha Queue Registered User regular
    tbloxham wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    Trump is on Rush Limbaugh's radio show this morning and just claimed "regeneron," the science fiction bad-guy plot device sounding thing, is a "cure" for COVID-19. Reminder that Trump has money going between him and the company making the shit so of course this is all horse shit.

    This is explicitly incorrect. Regeneron is a company making a highly viable, potentially very effective treatment for COVID-19 which does have the potential to be effective enough to be considered 'a cure'.

    Monoclonal (and polyclonal) antibodies are being dilligently evaluated in well run clinical trials and are showing promising results, but the trials aren't done yet.

    https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/regeneron-covid-trial-data/

    If we are VERY lucky, then maybe this could be a cure. We just don't know yet. Regeneron might 'know', but they don't know to a good standard of statistical dilligence.

    I dunno, I would consider America lucky if it didn't work to be honest.

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    PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    If antibody based therapy doesn't work, then a vaccine won't work, and our only hope for resolution will probably be something like the Andromeda Strain where the virus gets bored of picking on such an easy target and moves on

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    Monkey Ball WarriorMonkey Ball Warrior A collection of mediocre hats Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Eh, antibody treatments don't have a great track record, whereas vaccines... well, nobody has Polio anymore.

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    VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    I would be surprised if there wasn’t some sort of Covid specific drug in clinical trials within a couple years.

    Maybe if a wildly successful vaccine makes it unnecessary.

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    tbloxhamtbloxham Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Paladin wrote: »
    If antibody based therapy doesn't work, then a vaccine won't work, and our only hope for resolution will probably be something like the Andromeda Strain where the virus gets bored of picking on such an easy target and moves on

    If an antibody based therapy works, then a vaccine definitely will work, the inverse isn't necessarily true. The antibodies have to get to the right place in the right concentrations to be effective.

    Edit - and clearly, if one doesn't work it doesn't mean nothing can work (antibody based treatments) but, the quicker we see a success the more confidence we can take that this virus doesn't have too many clever tricks up its sleeves.

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    I I got a COVID test today. Nasal swab.

    Apparently, they are getting the rapid saliva tests on Monday.

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    If antibody based therapy doesn't work, then a vaccine won't work, and our only hope for resolution will probably be something like the Andromeda Strain where the virus gets bored of picking on such an easy target and moves on

    Spoilers

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    MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Great, this fucking virus might not just cause strokes and make people stupider but also give people diabetes. Not just diabetes but weird hybrid type 1 and 2 diabetes, or 1 turning into 2 or some other weird shit that makes no sense just like this coronavirus.

    Just the kind of thing to make me paranoid. "Oh no I've been having frequent urination what if it's happened to me." "No you fool you pee a lot because you drink a lot of water because you were already paranoid about getting the family kidney stones to the point that you turned 'Hydration is Important' into one of your personal mantras."

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    PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    On the other hand, Type II diabetic survivors of severe COVID-19 infections lose so much of their body weight that they might come off insulin altogether

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    OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    On the other hand, Type II diabetic survivors of severe COVID-19 infections lose so much of their body weight that they might come off insulin altogether

    Bad news good news...?

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    Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    As uncomfortable as I sometimes am with my weight, I think I'll pass on the Mini-Strokes and Anoxia Diet.

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    Void SlayerVoid Slayer Very Suspicious Registered User regular
    So it just seems to damage random parts of the body depending on the person? The side effects seem to be scattered all over the place.

    On a positive note my retail work place has hit month 3 of operation with no infections so distancing and masks are helping I guess? Also a no fault stay home and get tested and you get 2 weeks pay policy we are actually following. A few employees got exposed outside work and fortunately never had it but at least they were out with pay.

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    PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    So it just seems to damage random parts of the body depending on the person? The side effects seem to be scattered all over the place.

    On a positive note my retail work place has hit month 3 of operation with no infections so distancing and masks are helping I guess? Also a no fault stay home and get tested and you get 2 weeks pay policy we are actually following. A few employees got exposed outside work and fortunately never had it but at least they were out with pay.

    The current theory is vascular accident from a residual hypercoagulable state vs direct damage to end organs where the virus can infect, so heart attack and stroke vs cardiomyopathy and GI dysfunction. Also, there are a lot of secondary side effects to requiring intubation and fighting off a nasty infection, like weight loss, myopathy, encephalopathy, and secondary bacterial pulmonary infection.

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    DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Mayabird wrote: »
    Great, this fucking virus might not just cause strokes and make people stupider but also give people diabetes. Not just diabetes but weird hybrid type 1 and 2 diabetes, or 1 turning into 2 or some other weird shit that makes no sense just like this coronavirus.

    Just the kind of thing to make me paranoid. "Oh no I've been having frequent urination what if it's happened to me." "No you fool you pee a lot because you drink a lot of water because you were already paranoid about getting the family kidney stones to the point that you turned 'Hydration is Important' into one of your personal mantras."

    Type 1 has a short "honeymoon" period where sometimes all of a sudden your pancreas starts functioning a little bit again(or fully) for a few days/a week or two. It's the last breaths and completely stops after this period. Doctors tell people who contract T1 to not get their hopes up.

    There's a lot of other factors with t1 diabeties that are giant red flags, Generally you are frequently drinking because you have a unquenching thirst, and the frequent urination includes peeing in your sleep because your body is just trying to shed protiens/excess sugar, everything it can to regulate. When I was a kid I couldn't quench my thirst, but my mom caught on when I peed my bed two nights in a row and I was a young teenager. If it's t1 and took any loner I would have gotten severely ill. I'm lucky she knew the warning signs and took me to a doctor the second day and we caught it probably pretty early.

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Mayabird wrote: »
    Great, this fucking virus might not just cause strokes and make people stupider but also give people diabetes. Not just diabetes but weird hybrid type 1 and 2 diabetes, or 1 turning into 2 or some other weird shit that makes no sense just like this coronavirus.

    Just the kind of thing to make me paranoid. "Oh no I've been having frequent urination what if it's happened to me." "No you fool you pee a lot because you drink a lot of water because you were already paranoid about getting the family kidney stones to the point that you turned 'Hydration is Important' into one of your personal mantras."

    Type 1 has a short "honeymoon" period where sometimes all of a sudden your pancreas starts functioning a little bit again(or fully) for a few days/a week or two. It's the last breaths and completely stops after this period. Doctors tell people who contract T1 to not get their hopes up.

    There's a lot of other factors with t1 diabeties that are giant red flags, Generally you are frequently drinking because you have a unquenching thirst, and the frequent urination includes peeing in your sleep because your body is just trying to shed protiens/excess sugar, everything it can to regulate.

    Plus you get tired super easy. In the period where I manifested symptoms but before I was diagnosed I got home from work around five, fell straight into bed and didn't wake up until five the next morning.

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular

    How the heck is Republican willingness to take the vaccine still lower than Democratic willingness?

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    WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    I went for my weekly check of the john hopkin's coronavirus map and noticed shit is going extremely poorly in Russia very suddenly:
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    David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    I think a lot of Republicans are of the mindset that a vaccine is great, all the libs can take it and then everything can be opened up again because everyone else knows it's either a scam, a hoax or just the flu.

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    EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »

    How the heck is Republican willingness to take the vaccine still lower than Democratic willingness?

    This isn't a measure of faith in science, but faith in the Trump CDC.

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    Jealous DevaJealous Deva Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    There are a lot of crazy anti-vaxxer republicans?

    Like a lot of the democrat logic is “I don’t want to take this because coronavirus is only 6 months old and that just isn’t enough time to make a safe vaccine.” Whereas for republicans and independents, some of the resistance is that, but you also get the “I don’t want to take any vaccines because that’s how the satan worshippers in the government give you autism” people mixed in as well.

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    EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    I went for my weekly check of the john hopkin's coronavirus map and noticed shit is going extremely poorly in Russia very suddenly:
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    Its getting cold.

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    ThegreatcowThegreatcow Lord of All Bacons Washington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered User regular
    There are a lot of crazy anti-vaxxer republicans?

    Like a lot of the democrat logic is “I don’t want to take this because coronavirus is only 6 months old and that just isn’t enough time to make a safe vaccine.” Whereas for republicans and independents, some of the resistance is that, but you also get the “I don’t want to take any vaccines because that’s how the satan worshippers in the government give you autism” people mixed in as well.

    I think this is it right here. I think a large chunk of democrats aren't necessarily anti-vax/anti-science, it's just that we've been aware of the CDC becoming completely co-opted and politicized and we're also more acutely aware that a vaccine simply can't be reliably developed in just 6-9 months that we'd be comfortable taking.

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    ChiselphaneChiselphane Registered User regular
    Taking a vaccine would mean admitting there was a problem.

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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Would I take a vaccine that has been properly tested and vetted by scientific experts? Yes.
    Would I take a vaccine that Trump forced out in a rush to beat an election? Only with an actual gun to my head.

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    PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    I'll take the vaccine

    Once I sign that sweet supplemental disability insurance plan

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    MorganVMorganV Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    I'll take the vaccine

    Once I sign that sweet supplemental disability insurance plan

    Just make sure it's one that's not voided by irresponsible acts, like motorcycles or parachuting. Or taking an rushed politically motivated vaccine.

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    Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    I'll take the vaccine

    Once I sign that sweet supplemental disability insurance plan

    Make sure you pay for it directly and not through an employer! It's not considered income if you have to claim it and paid for it yoursel!

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    tbloxhamtbloxham Registered User regular
    I'll take any of the well documented vaccines immediately one becomes available, because the greatest risk of a 'rushed' one at this point is a lack of efficacy, and considering my plan would be to get myself and my family vaccinated and then continue to behave exactly as I am now for 6-12 months while slowly everyone else does its a null risk.

    The part of vaccine development which is long and complex is...

    1) Showing that it works
    2) Showing that it doesn't have some incredibly rare 1/100,000 side effect

    Showing that it doesn't kill you or make you frequently horribly ill in the first 2 months isn't hard once you have the volunteers and the trial doses, which all the big name vaccines do. And to me, the latter two are risks worth taking considering Coronavirus exists and I could be infected at any time. Yes, vaccine enhancement exists, but, there's been no sign of that in any of the early phase trials, and hundreds of thousands of people have already taken various vaccines. Tens of thousands for each candidate. For all responsible vaccines (oxford, moderna etc) the risk of vaccine enhancement is considered to be low/rare because they have already given the vaccine to tens of thousands of people, and any reports of it would be trumpeted to the heavens, considering we saw days of breathless reporting last week about 5 people getting bad headaches and poor sleep for a few days after being vaccinated.

    If the vaccine works, great. If it doesn't, then my risk is the same. And considering there's a solid chance it may work, even if it is only say, 30% effective, we already know that Coronavirus itself causes some unpleasant rare long term side effects (Also death) so I'd rather roll the dice there. We've had extensive discussion here about long term side effects of Coronavirus, and while we don't know much yet due to primarily anecdotal reports, or horribly skewed small data sets, its safe to say that at LEAST 1/10000 people infected will have highly unpleasant lingering effects beyond the 3 month mark. (again, at least, and if you correctly argue that my 3 month and 1/10000 numbers are probably too low then all you are doing is arguing even MORE that you should get vaccinated ASAP).

    Its pretty easy to run the numbers and decide the right bet is on being vaccinated asap, and then behaving as if you haven't been.

    But, it's all a moot point, because vaccines will be compulsory and 'no-one' (excluding healthcare personnel etc) is going to be able to get one for at least 3-6 months even in a highly optimistic world. So you're going to have to take it, and your going to have months of safety. and efficacy data to pore over before you can get your compulsory shot.

    However, of course I believe that all the above is true, but that the risks to the general public of a rushed vaccine are still very large, because if we did have a 'rushed' vaccine (for good or bad reasons) there would be no communication of the fact that "We think this probably works, maybe 30-60% of the time, so, take it but then keep behaving exactly the same until we can dose almost everyone" and instead all the vaccinated people would be told, 'You are fine now, do whatever you want", which would lead to tens of thousands of additional deaths, with many amongst the vaccinated, even if the vaccine DOES have a solid effect at the 50% level.

    Honestly, while I have high hopes for a vaccine, and low concerns that the vaccine itself will do us harm even if it is rushed. I have great concerns that the messaging about vaccines and how they work will be poorly delivered, poorly understood, and do us great harm.

    My worry is not a rushed vaccine. My worry is bad messaging and vaccination strategy, and a rushed and half formed distribution strategy accompanied by legions of antivaxxers and breathless news articles reporting every case in a vaccinated person. And that that bad strategy might lead to an even harder situation in getting people to take the vaccine, because of the perception it didn't work even if it does work.

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    EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    There is some serious false equivalence in your logic. Assuming that [COVID-19 has lingering side effects] is equivalent to [This improperly vetted vaccine causes lingering side effects] are an equivalent risk is not the same, because the risk is aggregate, especially in your example where you assume it is only 30-60% effective. That isn't mitigating harm, its causing additional harm for more people.

    You wait until a properly tested and vetted vaccine comes out, full stop.

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Taking a vaccine would mean admitting there was a problem.

    This is it right here

    Vaccination against COVID is like mask use to folks in Trumpland

    Holy fuck I just realized that if/when we get a good vaccine all these dipshits aren’t goi g to take it and all the people who can’t get vaccinated will still be at risk

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    GilgaronGilgaron Registered User regular
    I keep joking with my wife that I'm going to demand health services give me whatever vaccine one of our senior scientists got once it is available. But, yes, it'll be first responders and military getting it first, I'd expect, so that's going to be the mass scale safety test. The military already gets lots of vaccines 'normal' people don't get.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Taking a vaccine would mean admitting there was a problem.

    This is it right here

    Vaccination against COVID is like mask use to folks in Trumpland

    Holy fuck I just realized that if/when we get a good vaccine all these dipshits aren’t goi g to take it and all the people who can’t get vaccinated will still be at risk

    This.

    We will never be fully rid of Corona.

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    Monkey Ball WarriorMonkey Ball Warrior A collection of mediocre hats Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
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    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Taking a vaccine would mean admitting there was a problem.

    This is it right here

    Vaccination against COVID is like mask use to folks in Trumpland

    Holy fuck I just realized that if/when we get a good vaccine all these dipshits aren’t goi g to take it and all the people who can’t get vaccinated will still be at risk

    This.

    We will never be fully rid of Corona.

    No, if the vaccine is very effective (or if a very effective second+ gen vaccine comes out), then it would be possible to eradicate it. Not easy, or cheap, but possible. You get the numbers down enough that contact tracing works, and you trace and isolate. Eventually nobody is contagious and the virus is extinct.

    Obviously we could have done this back in April and saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But from where we are now it will take a polio-level decade long project. But it is at least feasible.

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    MillMill Registered User regular
    Pretty much most of the democratic unwillingness to take the vaccine would come down to the fact that we're now aware that the CDC has been politicized and thus there are real questions about whether a vaccine works and is reasonable safe. After all, for all we know it doesn't work or was rushed because the goal some shithead wanted was to have an excuse reopen things or make Trump look good.

    It's going to be a more mixed bag with republicans. There is a certain degree of anti-vaxxer nonsense and that seems noticeable higher on the republican side than the democratic side. There are people that don't want the vaccine, not because they are some idiot anti-vaxxer, but either believe covid is a hoax or think taking a vaccine is admitting that it is a serious problem. You also have a number that won't take it for the reason most democrats won't, they strongly suspect that the CDC is no longer thoroughly vetting it and that opens them up to a serious risk.

    Independents are in a similar boat to republicans.

    The poll really shows how the republicans have undermined public trust in the CDC.

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