[2aProtectsTheRest]

A) It hasn’t taken long at all to produce hundreds of viable vaccine candidates. It’s been just about 7 months since we got the viral genome mapped for SARS-CoV-2.

Meanwhile, it took 61 years after the first US outbreak of polio to get a working vaccine. We’ll have this one done, approved, and at your local CVS in less than 1 year.

B) There are multiple vaccine candidates (such as Novavax’s) which did NOT use fetal stem cells to culture the virus. It’s easier to culture a virus and test with it using fetal stem cells, but it’s not strictly necessary. Also important to note that fetal stem cells are NOT part of the manufacturing process for ANY vaccines. They’re used in R&D only.

And for whatever it’s worth, I completely agree we should NOT be doing that. There are far too many moral and ethical problems with doing it. And it’s not required; just more difficult.

[ebb tide]

And for whatever it’s worth, I completely agree we should NOT be doing that.

You sure don't sound like you agree with it:

It’s easier to culture a virus and test with it using fetal stem cells, but it’s not strictly necessary. Also important to note that fetal stem cells are NOT part of the manufacturing process for ANY vaccines. They’re used in R&D only.

[Guenevere]

What is R and D?

[ebb tide]

It’s easier to culture a virus and test with it using fetal stem cells, but it’s not strictly necessary. Also important to note that fetal stem cells are NOT part of the manufacturing process for ANY vaccines.

Let's cut the PC crap about "fetal stem cells" and call it like it is:

The cells of a baby girl, murdered by her mother and her physician, are being used for R&D. Nothing more than cannibalism.

[ebb tide]

We’ll have this one done, approved, and at your local CVS in less than 1 year.

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