

This will be the second year, when it winds down in the spring.
Also, per the CDC, the realistic death count is more like 60,000, not 341,000, so it's not even going to be close.
Note also the tripling of the US population in the meantime, meaning this is probably in the neighborhood of 5% as deadly at most.
See you Space Cowboy ...

Hoping this vaccine works and things go back to normal. I think it's safe to say, that's what everybody wants right now. I'd really like to be able to go out to a bar on the weekend or go to a concert



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In an unrelated story my wife and I enjoyed date night with dinner out at an actual local restaurant and then a movie to see WW84. Luckily we live in a region that takes the suggestions of the federal government and mixes in a bit of local common sense. Small businesses are still being bent over by ‘the gimp’ but we try to keep helping each other out. Don’t forget your neighbors.

I am pessimistic by nature, so I hear that everyone hopes to have moved into general distribution of the vaccine by late spring early summer...but I think we all know that is a best case estimate. So I figure it will be the fall before "on demand" availability is out there.
Plus, during this window we should start getting data on how long the immunity lasts. I have read anywhere from weeks to months to years. No one has enough data to know.
I think there will be a massive backlash once people start to truly appreciate how long their wait for the vaccine will be and how short-term the protection offered by the vaccine may prove to be. Such a backlash may impact how effective the vaccine is for the "herd" if it results in people passing up on it due to low availability or lack of faith in its effectiveness. I mean we can't manage to convince people to keep measles and TB at bay due to a lack of trust in vaccines. This is going to go better?
Long, ranty story short...everyone seems to be talking like by the end of the first quarter of 2021, we can all just shrug this off and move on. I don't think it will happen. A toxic stew of lack of availability, lack of faith in the vaccine(s), and lack of willpower to deal with it all is going to mean a measurable percentage of the population has COVID for years to come. Cue...boiling the frog and controlling the population screeds in 3...2...1...

I'm just hoping for the best, at this point if we're heading to the end of 2021 without any vaccine I'd willing to just say fuck it and be like Sweden

See you Space Cowboy ...

At least he hits his cues.
we must never forget tell everyone you know New England cheated and might be back at it Edit 1-21-15 there back Edit #2__12-8-19 here we go again Edit #3__ 5-25-23 it never ends
Good to hear some healthcare workers getting their vaccines. Not exactly warp speed, but at least the first injection is completed for some.
If and when the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is improved, that should help speed things up, as I believe it is a single injection vaccine.


you all would be wise to look into that vaccine .... this sort of vaccine has NEVER been used on humans and what it may do is yet to be determined ....
some claim it could alter your dna ....
screw that shit
Kenny Pickett is who I though he was .. 4 teams in 5 years and traded twice in one off season


So if I take the vaccine, there is a chance it alters my DNA? SWEET! Mutant super-powers here I come!
I hope I can either fly or turn invisible.
mRNA based therapies have been used in Cancer therapies for over 25 years. It also had some use in single gene therapies, but something about the rapid degradation of the mRNA seems to have not made it optimal. It is true that mRNA vaccines are a new technology in how vaccine is delivered, but when you understand how it works, it seems pretty basic. Here is a quick video from Philly Children's hospital that explains how it works. (both Pfizer and Moderna are mRNA vaccines).
“There is an expression out there that a failed gene therapy makes a good vaccine,” says Luk Vandenberghe, a viral vector expert at Harvard Medical School. https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/...OVID-19/98/i19

Just joking of course.
So, over 10 million doses have been so far,. Anybody heard of somebody turning into a monkey yet? Maybe nobody knows, because Bill Gates has control over their mind and has commanded them not to inform anybody.
Just thought I would check in to see what the latest word is on this "vaccine warning".![]()
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Just scheduled my first injection for tomorrow. 2nd one comes 21 days after. If you're curious I'll let you in on any effects I notice.