I wish more people would 1) develop the ability to read primary lit; and 2) choose to read primary lit to develop their understanding of a situation. Engineers may not be scientists but at least they push us to be able to half-assed communicate with scientists. Whether in our field of profession or not, we can at least draw conclusions.
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It was indirectly funded via government purchase orders, so thatās not nothing.
I believe that portion of the commentary is outlined more fully here.
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Iāve already tried explaining that itās likely The Rona will claim many lives in 30, 40, 50, 60 years. Thatās part of its plan: let people think theyāve won, then kill them with something they think is unrelated. Some people just donāt understand the nature of The Rona.
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The development of the vaccine was not funded by Operation Warp Speed at all. Development of the vaccine began prior to Warp Speed about the time Trump was still in full ostrich mode regarding the virus. The United States has not given Pfizer any money. The U.S. has committed to purchasing doses of the vaccine when they become available at a lower rate per capita than the European Union, Japan and the U.K.
Pfizer, BioNTechās vaccine supply deals:
- European Union, 200 million doses
- Japan 120 million doses
- US, 100 million doses
- UK 30 million doses
Youāre right in that itās not ānothingā. But, itās pretty much doing what youāre supposed to do as a government. As Chris Rock said, you shouldnāt take credit for doing what youāre supposed to do.
Edit to ad: My response was to the poster above who predicted the Dems would take credit for this when in fact Pence already has! Thatās great! Pence can take a little less credit than every European Union Country, Japan and the U.K. So heās in a long line of people waiting to be patted on the back for doing their job. Have all the other leaders sought to politicize this as he already has? I really donāt know.
The name of Trumpās overall COVID response should have been called Operation Ostrich.
Pfizer chose no money for development to try and be first with a working vaccine.
Here is a further distribution of funds
May be a repeat, l havent followed this thread much
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Now thatās funny.
Iām not questioning your rules, just saying for the record that @everybodygetsone was probably NOT intending to be racist but, rather a little xenophobic(which isnāt a bad thing in itself depending on the context IMO. North Korea scares me sometimes and we do call some countries āshitholesā.) without any ill intent, probably just to troll the more sensitive non-Asian guys since he obviously didnāt understand the meaning of the āgā word.
And he used the words āChina virusā instead of āChinese virusā in a later post, which probably shows he knows āChineseā is also considered a race hence he refrained from using the latter. Iām giving him kudos for that.
Excellent.
Me 'bro-sulting someone: MFer, Iām the chink in your armour!
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HAHA, the Chinese jokes in Crank 2 (Jason Statham) were pure gold and āracistā as fuck. Literally laughed my ass off. The movie wasnāt good, though,
EDIT:
FTR my thought process is along the lines of:
I think one important way to resolve racism is to follow the Singapore model where different races can crack jokes about one another and have the ability to laugh at themselves. (Religion is a different thing altogether so donāt go around cracking Muslim jokes for shits and giggles in this era, guys. We even try to refrain from doing so in South Asia even though some countries here are racist as FUCK.)
In Asia, Sikhs are the ones who LOVE telling Sikh jokes. Every single Sikh joke Iāve heard, even the nasty ones, were heard from Sikhs.
āWhat do you call a Singh who beats up his wife all the time? Rotten to the Kaur!ā.
I understand the US is not really there yet, but it will eventually have to get there in the future for true racial harmony and assimilation.
Itās going in the opposite direction, fast.
I think it will resolve itself with time. This is just an extreme overcorrection which should be temporary. Itās like volatile stocks, man. This shit will even eventually peak and crash when people just get so tired of it all they want nothing to do with any of it anymore since they have their own lives, jobs and families to deal with.
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The problem is that itās being taught now in the education system. We have professors in colleges now that teach whateverthefucktheycallit, with tenure.
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Yikes. Broke a world record we didnāt want today. Over 130,000 new cases. I was hoping it would go away after Election Day like some had said (sarcasm).
Not good. The last 30 days have seen insane numbers.
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More Americans should die of covid so fewer people in shithole countries die. Sounds like something AOC would agree withā¦ until she realizes covid kills people of color at a higher rate than whites.
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Did you read the article? He said Trump will screw up any vaccination plan. These are the same people who staged a press conference at the Four Seasons, only it wasnāt.
More like operation money grab. It has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with capitalism.
Defending Cuomo now? He totally mishandled his state and now berates someone, anyone else.
At the end, he said he is in talks with other governors on how they can shape the roll out or stop it.
Heās been berating people.
I wish the same. Primary lit would help so many people. Or even some reviews of the topic - individual studies can get really āweedyā. I think that is one of the things that gets peopleā¦ Lack of context.
And you guys ARE scientists. You could call it āpracticalā science lol. You design and build the things we all need, including the instruments in my lab. And it teaches the exact same skills as bench researchāanalytical thinking, problem solving, physical understanding, just with different vocabulary.
Maybe the nuances take work due to not having the school, but all the same skills apply. Once you get the weirdness of chemical language you can pick up a lot of things. Nowhere near the math requirements you guys have in school.
Thank you!
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