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Surgeon General: I would like to thank all who helped develop this vaccine, particularly people of color

Posted on 12/18/2020 8:34:39 AM PST by MNDude

Just listening to the surgeon general. He wants to especially the thank POC researchers. POC scientists. POC test subjects.

"It would truly be a tragedy if people cannot get the vaccine or WON'T take it because of mistrust"


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To: MNDude

“Stating POC helped develop the vaccine is such a stupid and ineffective argument to try to ease any concerns.”


I don’t disagree. But as pointed out earlier, the Tuskegee “Study” is still well within living memory. The distrust may seem irrational, but it’s there and has to be dealt with.

Reminds me a bit of the O.J. case. Turns out that the some of the L.A.P.D. was crooked and did plant evidence. People in the ‘hood knew that, people out of the ‘hood couldn’t believe it, but it turned out to be true.


41 posted on 12/18/2020 9:41:01 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: cuban leaf

“Plumbing matters too. ;)”

Nope, you dinosaur!


42 posted on 12/18/2020 9:43:34 AM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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To: MNDude

I yearn for the day that we as human beings no longer find a need to place an adjective before the word American.


43 posted on 12/18/2020 9:43:36 AM PST by Pez149
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To: Drew68

Here, Here....


44 posted on 12/18/2020 9:45:11 AM PST by Pez149
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To: MNDude

So wait, does that mean he’s not “especially” greatful for the white people’s contributions?


45 posted on 12/18/2020 9:46:42 AM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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To: jstolzen
talked about through the prism of skin color and sexual “identity”

This is like theologians in the middle ages talking about everything through the prism of angels and heads of pins.

Totally insanity--the only way it ends is when the leftists die of old age....
46 posted on 12/18/2020 9:47:09 AM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: MNDude
It is amazing to see the number of people rushing to surrender to the enemy in hope of avoiding execution (political).

The concept of stand and fight never even occurred to them.

47 posted on 12/18/2020 9:47:22 AM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: G Larry

Is he GAY????


48 posted on 12/18/2020 9:50:02 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PilotDave

Who you callin’ a fassil?!


49 posted on 12/18/2020 9:56:42 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: PilotDave

“So wait, does that mean he’s not “especially” greatful for the white people’s contributions?”

Of course not. That’s just a given that they’ll contribute.


50 posted on 12/18/2020 9:57:05 AM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

POC? does that mean Picker of Cotton?


51 posted on 12/18/2020 9:58:26 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: hanamizu

“Reminds me a bit of the O.J. case. Turns out that the some of the L.A.P.D. was crooked and did plant evidence. People in the ‘hood knew that, people out of the ‘hood couldn’t believe it, but it turned out to be true.”

Oddly, the black community and their mistrust may have been the more appropriate view towards those in power than the trusting white community has had.


52 posted on 12/18/2020 10:00:00 AM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

I wonder what the response would be if he had said, “I want to thank all the white scientists, researchers, and test subjects”.


53 posted on 12/18/2020 10:03:43 AM PST by euram
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To: MNDude

The surgeon general is an asshole.


54 posted on 12/18/2020 10:05:57 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: MNDude

Gag me!


55 posted on 12/18/2020 10:15:34 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: cgbg

“This is like theologians in the middle ages talking about everything through the prism of angels and heads of pins.”

In fairness, there is doubt as to whether those theologians ever actually did that - see the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_pin%3F
Which would mean that theologians in the middle ages were more sensible than the people of today.


56 posted on 12/18/2020 10:16:17 AM PST by Mr Information
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To: KC_Lion
The color of your skin is all that matters.

Don't fall for that it's just the "color of ones skin" crap. There are more genetic traits that separate races than just the color of their skin. I won't mention any here because it's socially taboo.

57 posted on 12/18/2020 10:21:03 AM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: MNDude

Are people of color the same as colored people?


58 posted on 12/18/2020 10:22:24 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: MNDude

Its too bad that the real heroes, the white people who pushed all of this out don’t get credit. BTW, the head of the FDA that fast tracked this is a honky!


59 posted on 12/18/2020 10:40:41 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: MNDude

Some weeks ago, I heard that a couple of French (?) scientists had said that they wanted to test a vaccine on Africans, and this frightened Africans, not wanting to be guinea pigs. (My understanding was that this was African Africans, not African Americans - maybe something like Tuskegee had happened there.) What I’ve now heard is the opposite: Africans are concerned that they’ll have to wait to get the vaccine, and they don’t want to wait. (Again, I’m talking about Africans in Africa.)


60 posted on 12/18/2020 10:42:04 AM PST by Mr Information
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