Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I assume this is a reference to the first vaccine for polio, which was developed over 60 years ago. One would hope advances in technology might make the process go faster now.

 

Developing a vaccine is not the same as developing a new computer code. It's my understanding the vaccines have to be tested thoroughly on a variety of populations before being mass-produced. That mass-production is a highly manual process that takes time that can't be rushed (don't they use actual chicken eggs to grow the elements used in the flu vaccine every year?).

And let's not even begin to think about how much the company that develops the first vaccine is going to charge for each dose, and who are going to get those doses? And can you imagine the shitshow that's going to occur during rollout if the band of merry grifters we have today are still in charge?

Something tells me by late summer we'll be looking back at this period as the golden era of Covid world.

 

I'm not suggesting that it's going to be rolled out tomorrow, but improvements in our ability to share information alone should make things move faster.

 

not to be doomsy, but there's no vaccine for HIV / AIDS yet - nor for SARS and we're still in the animal test phase for MERS.

all of which are 'information age' challenges

 

The virology experts I have read have expressed a rough consensus that while a vaccine is by no means impossible, it's far more likely that improved therapeutic treatments for its effects will be developed first.

 

I laughed.

 

15000 of my neighbors are dead.

 

Data on Gilead's remdesivir show no benefit for coronavirus patients

 

Yes, they use battalions of chicken eggs to make flu vaccine every year. Speaking of which, since they have to select which strains of flu are included in the flu vac months in advance, I hope that they choose all the right ones. We're going to need all the help we can get come this fall.

I look back at NBA players and rich people being able to get tested when no one else could, and I'm fearful about the shitshow that will ensue after a vaccine is developed. Everyone can't be first, but you know some of who will be in the front of the line, and there will be resentment. Plus it simply takes time to manufacture billions of doses.

 

Bill Gates shares the 5 key innovations that are crucial to overcoming the coronavirus pandemic

"Gates shared his views in a long document posted on his blog on Thursday. He said the innovations needed to come in five areas: treatments, vaccines, testing, contact tracing, and policies for reopening the economy."

 

"They know it plays well with the press."

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Stay-At-Home Restrictions, New Poll Finds

"By June 1, the tide on doing this will have turned, and governors/public health officials will be looking down the barrel of that and weighing it against what science is saying might happen."

Fuck science, people wanna go to casinos and Six Flags.

"... but sentiment has begun to shift ..."

That's giving a whole lot of credit to a bunch of generically angry white people who'd show up tomorrow to protest anything they're told to be the conservative astroturfers.