Maybe they ain't doing such a bad job...

[jon-nyc]

We'll have vaccines approved by early 2021? Trump signed the CARES act last spring, which subsidizes vaccine production costs?

What's the news here, exactly?

[jon-nyc]

I would certainly agree that the researchers are doing a fabulous job and subsidizing vaccine development was a great idea. Also, subsidizing production in advance of approval (which you may recall was originally an idea of the Gates foundation) will be key.

[Loki]

The pivot has begun now that Trump is out of the way. Can’t wait for Biden to begin ringing in the new economy and not to be so afraid of Covid.

It all starts with press softening the ground. Here we go.

[Mik]

Yet nothing in that respect will actually be different.

[taiwan_girl]

What happened to Bill Gates and his donations to the vaccine research? Is he still part of that?

[jon-nyc]

I’m suspect once congress opened the checkbook he let them have at it.

[Doctor Phibes]

@taiwan_girl said in Maybe they ain't doing such a bad job...:

What happened to Bill Gates and his donations to the vaccine research? Is he still part of that?

He's finished the vaccine, he's just beta-testing the nanobots that are going to be added.

[jon-nyc]

Shhh! Don’t let that out before the election.

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in Maybe they ain't doing such a bad job...:

Yet nothing in that respect will actually be different.

The difference will be that the Biden administration won’t undermine science-driven public officials like Fauci, won’t undermine the CDC on public health guidelines, won’t undermine the FDA on vaccine safety, administration officials will set good examples by wearing masks and practice social distancing, political surrogates won’t hold unnecessary in-person rallies that risk spreading SARS-CoV-2. Biden would not hold up economic stimulus legislation to pursue payroll tax cuts. Biden will not delay stimulus checks going out to the people to pursue getting his signature on the checks. Biden would not push dubious “payroll tax deferral” that then require employers to collect deferred payroll taxes after a few months.

[jon-nyc]

But will Biden compare it favorably with the flu one day and then threaten to cordon off New York (count’em) 18 days later?

[Jolly]

As soon as he figures out he's not a Senator. Maybe.