How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.
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Would be nice.
Although, I'd just as soon the wife got mine.
And another thing...What about folks like my SIL, who has already had COVID?
And another, 'nuther thing...What about DIL, who I'd bet good money had it last March, but is four months pregnant (and still working as a dialysis nurse).
Gonna be some tough decisions on who gets the Trump vaccine, when...
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Would be nice.
Although, I'd just as soon the wife got mine.
And another thing...What about folks like my SIL, who has already had COVID?
And another, 'nuther thing...What about DIL, who I'd bet good money had it last March, but is four months pregnant (and still working as a dialysis nurse).
Gonna be some tough decisions on who gets the Trump vaccine, when...
@Jolly said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
Gonna be some tough decisions on who gets the Trump vaccine,
Last time I was in the cleaning aisle at the store they had gallons and gallons of the Trump vaccine.
It’s the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that are going to be hard to come by.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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I can’t think of a time in my life where we watched bodies stack up while we had an emergency remedy ready and we just waited weeks for bureaucratic approval processes.
Somebody should model excess deaths between deployment of Pfizer and Moderna today and when they actually are deployed. Actually we should use the UK approval dates.
It’s so weird and deadly.
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@Jolly said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
Gonna be some tough decisions on who gets the Trump vaccine,
Last time I was in the cleaning aisle at the store they had gallons and gallons of the Trump vaccine.
It’s the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that are going to be hard to come by.
@jon-nyc said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
@Jolly said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
Gonna be some tough decisions on who gets the Trump vaccine,
Last time I was in the cleaning aisle at the store they had gallons and gallons of the Trump vaccine.
It’s the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that are going to be hard to come by.
Nah, you don't get off that easy. Trump's watch, Trump's vaccine. I've been in the medical biz forty years and I've never seen the FDA move this fast.
Of course, if that bothers you, you can refuse to take any of them
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He made them move almost as fast as the terrible NHS.
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Well you know Jolly there was a pandemic and 30% unemployment. That might well have spurred the FDA as much as any nasty tweet.
@jon-nyc said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
Well you know Jolly there was a pandemic and 30% unemployment. That might well have spurred the FDA as much as any nasty tweet.
Bullshit. Pure partisan bullshit.
Remember, toots, I was dodging feces from AIDS patients when you were still trying to figure out how to depth-charge a beer in college. Or maybe that was high school. Did you know tests were available on automated platforms, platforms that were being used in the U.S., but the FDA would not let us have the tests? The Europeans were running them by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, and all we could do was grit our teeth. Safety you know. Protocol must be followed. There are rules, you know. Wonder how many died because of that?
I was around for Swine Flu, too. Saw some foot dragging there, too.
Not to mention various other maladies.
So give credit, where credit is deserved.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@jon-nyc said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
Well you know Jolly there was a pandemic and 30% unemployment. That might well have spurred the FDA as much as any nasty tweet.
Bullshit. Pure partisan bullshit.
Remember, toots, I was dodging feces from AIDS patients when you were still trying to figure out how to depth-charge a beer in college. Or maybe that was high school. Did you know tests were available on automated platforms, platforms that were being used in the U.S., but the FDA would not let us have the tests? The Europeans were running them by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, and all we could do was grit our teeth. Safety you know. Protocol must be followed. There are rules, you know. Wonder how many died because of that?
I was around for Swine Flu, too. Saw some foot dragging there, too.
Not to mention various other maladies.
So give credit, where credit is deserved.
@Jolly said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
@jon-nyc said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
Well you know Jolly there was a pandemic and 30% unemployment. That might well have spurred the FDA as much as any nasty tweet.
Bullshit. Pure partisan bullshit.
Remember, toots, I was dodging feces from AIDS patients when you were still trying to figure out how to depth-charge a beer in college. Or maybe that was high school. Did you know tests were available on automated platforms, platforms that were being used in the U.S., but the FDA would not let us have the tests? The Europeans were running them by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, and all we could do was grit our teeth. Safety you know. Protocol must be followed. There are rules, you know. Wonder how many died because of that?
I was around for Swine Flu, too. Saw some foot dragging there, too.
Not to mention various other maladies.
So give credit, where credit is deserved.
Do you remember President Trump implying they should do less testing because it was making the numbers look bad?
You can't try and seriously claim there wasn't some seriously mixed messaging coming out of the WH.
I was only joking
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...and I've said over and over I don't particularly blame DJT for the Covid situation. I'm not going to praise him effusively over something like the FDA acting almost as quickly as the UK, either.
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...and I've said over and over I don't particularly blame DJT for the Covid situation. I'm not going to praise him effusively over something like the FDA acting almost as quickly as the UK, either.
@Doctor-Phibes said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
...and I've said over and over I don't particularly blame DJT for the Covid situation. I'm not going to praise him effusively over something like the FDA acting almost as quickly as the UK, either.
I guess we don’t trust the UK. How absurd when Americans are dying. It will amount to well over 10,000 excess deaths.
But remember how blasé we are about that. So let’s not judge what happened before knowing how little we really care.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
...and I've said over and over I don't particularly blame DJT for the Covid situation. I'm not going to praise him effusively over something like the FDA acting almost as quickly as the UK, either.
I guess we don’t trust the UK. How absurd when Americans are dying. It will amount to well over 10,000 excess deaths.
But remember how blasé we are about that. So let’s not judge what happened before knowing how little we really care.
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I could say 'remember thalidomide?' The FDA saved you from the horrors of that one.
I was only joking
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I could say 'remember thalidomide?' The FDA saved you from the horrors of that one.
@Doctor-Phibes said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
I could say 'remember thalidomide?' The FDA saved you from the horrors of that one.
For 80 year olds. What did It do to them?
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I can't wait to take the Biden vaccine. It will be on Biden's watch, Biden's vaccine.
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I could say 'remember thalidomide?' The FDA saved you from the horrors of that one.
@Doctor-Phibes said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
I could say 'remember thalidomide?' The FDA saved you from the horrors of that one.
It's a good drug, as long as you're not pregnant:
Thalidomide is used as a first-line treatment in multiple myeloma in combination with dexamethasone or with melphalan and prednisone, to treat acute episodes of erythema nodosum leprosum, and for maintenance therapy.
The bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) is related to leprosy. Thalidomide may be helpful in some cases where standard TB drugs and corticosteroids are not sufficient to resolve severe inflammation in the brain.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
I could say 'remember thalidomide?' The FDA saved you from the horrors of that one.
For 80 year olds. What did It do to them?
@Loki said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
@Doctor-Phibes said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
I could say 'remember thalidomide?' The FDA saved you from the horrors of that one.
For 80 year olds. What did It do to them?
Yes, I take the point. But in the highly unlikely event that a tragedy occurs, there will be a lot of finger pointing, and the cause for vaccination in general would be put back decades.
I was only joking
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You missed the point entirely. I didn't say the FDA didn't speed things up, I said there was a lot more motivating them than Trump.
@jon-nyc said in How bad is the pandemic? Look at hospitalizations.:
You missed the point entirely. I didn't say the FDA didn't speed things up, I said there was a lot more motivating them than Trump.
Point not taken. There is always something motivating them. Sometimes not for the best. But this hasn't happened before.
Ever.
Period.
