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We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time
New York Magazine ^ | December 7, 2020 | David Wallace-Wells

Posted on 12/08/2020 9:22:49 AM PST by karpov

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21 posted on 12/08/2020 11:07:40 AM PST by 4Liberty (How does a kids car-donation nonprofit pay for so MANY radio ads if it's a charity?)
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To: taxcontrol
Tested for long term effects and found to not be harmful.

Don’t be silly. That phase (phase 4) of the trials occurs “after market” - meaning they’ll wait until a large number of “volunteers” are vaccinated and then do the long term effect study on those guinea pigs. If it turns out there’s a problem it will be “oops, sorry our bad. Too bad for you we are exempt from liability. Try your luck with VAERS to see if your surviving family members will be consoled with a financial settlement that you most likely won’t get.

22 posted on 12/08/2020 11:22:48 AM PST by Shethink13
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To: 4Liberty

No. That’s very apples and chickens. The vaccine is to NOT get it. The survival rate is having already failed that step.


23 posted on 12/08/2020 11:24:07 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: karpov
To be clear, I don’t want to suggest that Moderna should have been allowed to roll out its vaccine in February or even in May..

According to Florian Krammer, a vaccine scientist at Mount Sinai, you could do all of this at a cost of about $20 million to $30 million per vaccine and, ideally, would do so for between 50 and 100 different viruses — enough, he says, to functionally cover all the phylogenies that could give rise to pandemic strains in the future...

In a just-published paper in Cell, he suggests it isn’t just that Phase I clinical work and the larger, longer Phase II safety trials which could be done preemptively, entirely before the arrival of new pandemics. Some Phase III efficacy testing, he says, could be done then, as well — especially for existing rather than novel strains. “

If we do all that, he says, the entire timeline could be compressed to as few as three months...three months from the design of the Moderna vaccine was April 13. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html

24 posted on 12/08/2020 11:28:29 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: discostu

Sounds good, but (the point being) - I’m not interested in taking an experimental drug when the risks are so low to begin with.


25 posted on 12/08/2020 11:32:00 AM PST by 4Liberty (How does a kids car-donation nonprofit pay for so MANY radio ads if it's a charity?)
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To: Flick Lives
Have you noticed no Dim politicians got it?

Maybe they do and just go underground unreported. Where's Hillary.

26 posted on 12/08/2020 11:42:43 AM PST by jetson (chiwowa)
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To: 4Liberty

No that wasn’t your point. Your point was comparing apples and chickens to deceive.


27 posted on 12/08/2020 11:43:37 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu

You forget that the vaccine GIVES IT to you.


28 posted on 12/08/2020 11:46:25 AM PST by .30Carbine
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To: .30Carbine

I sure hope you’re kidding.


29 posted on 12/08/2020 11:47:19 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: Honorary Serb

I fully agree. This article is crap.


30 posted on 12/08/2020 11:50:06 AM PST by hawkaw
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To: discostu

Whatever. I’m not getting it, my trust level for government regulatory bureaucracies right now is at zero - and I’m entirely certain about THAT number.


31 posted on 12/08/2020 11:57:41 AM PST by 4Liberty (How does a kids car-donation nonprofit pay for so MANY radio ads if it's a charity?)
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To: karpov

HCQ/Zinc Sulfate or Ivermectin have both proven 99.3% effective if taken within 48hours of symptoms....


32 posted on 12/08/2020 12:00:41 PM PST by chopperk (L)
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To: 4Liberty

I don’t care if you get it or not. Just don’t play the “lies, damned lies and statistics” game. Your post was a flat out LIE by comparing unlike statistics as the same concept. I don’t give a crap what you do with your health, but when I catch someone lying I WILL point it out. DON’T LIE.


33 posted on 12/08/2020 12:00:48 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: tiki

No national one. At least to Democrat Arizona legislators got it. But I see what you mean.


34 posted on 12/08/2020 12:07:09 PM PST by Stayingawayfromthedarkside (Look, is it America that I see again?)
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To: karpov

If we were actually at WAR with COVID, we would have mass-produced and applied this vaccine as soon as they finished the “safety” trial. We didn’t NEED TO KNOW IT WAS EFFECTIVE. If it was safe, and we were really in a crisis, we should have taken the chance, or at least allowed people to take the chance if they wanted.


35 posted on 12/08/2020 12:22:59 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Shethink13

Exactly


36 posted on 12/08/2020 12:25:39 PM PST by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - Dad's wisdom)
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To: Honorary Serb

Remember how we dropped an atomic bomb in WW2? Way before we had finished testing it, or determined the side effects. IN fact, the 2nd bomb we dropped was much better than the first.

But it was a war, and in a war, you don’t wait for everything to be verified, you use what you got and take risks.

If COVID was really a crisis, we should have treated it that way. But instead, we decided that we should destroy people’s lives, and use normal processes to test our vaccines.


37 posted on 12/08/2020 12:25:44 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

The testing processes for WARP SPEED have been far from normal!

But with all the anti-vaxxers and fearmongers out there, we need to test for safety and efficacy!!!

The vaccine is not the atom bomb, which was made to be lethal and destructive. The vaccine is meant to prevent a disease without causing massive side effects!!!


38 posted on 12/08/2020 1:07:49 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: daniel1212
In a just-published paper in Cell, he suggests it isn’t just that Phase I clinical work and the larger, longer Phase II safety trials which could be done preemptively, entirely before the arrival of new pandemics. Some Phase III efficacy testing, he says, could be done then, as well — especially for existing rather than novel strains. “

If we do all that, he says, the entire timeline could be compressed to as few as three months...three months from the design of the Moderna vaccine was April 13. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html

If I am understanding this plan...

It would be to create vaccines worth potentially billions of dollars for viruses that are not yet a problem, in the chance that one day they might become a problem....Is that correct????

Thank goodness the world is comprised of exactly zero scientists who have a profit motive. That could really be dangerous if there were any.

39 posted on 12/08/2020 1:37:44 PM PST by nitzy
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To: discostu
That’s very apples and chickens. The vaccine is to NOT get it.

What does "NOT get it" mean? Seems like such an imprecise term to use when you yourself are demanding such precision.

40 posted on 12/08/2020 1:41:40 PM PST by nitzy
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