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COVID Thread 2: Operation Ludicrous Speed ! (Super Political!!!)

Very conservative wake alumna of Paul Ryan tribute "Let's get Fiscal" fame is hawking on Facebook her husband's covid therapeutic which he has apparently been talking about on conservative news networks but for which he can't seem to get FDA approval.

She says they've sidestepped the FDA now by marketing it as a homeopathic treatment and that her husband hand-delivered it to their ally Ben Carson and it immediately healed him of covid.

Anyone know anything about this?
 
Seems like another snake oil salesperson on the right.
 
So take a day of and drive to the "big city" for the vaccine or wait till the summer. Big hospitals have all kinds of equipment and treatment options that rural ones don't. BTW, a $10,000 medical grade super cold freezer doesn't sound that fucking expensive to me, so the fact that rural hospitals can't afford one is a structural problem, not a COVID problem or a vaccine problem.

By the way, here's the rest of the sensationalist headline for those of you who didn't click on the story:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised state health departments against purchasing ultra-cold freezers — which cost $10,000 to $15,000 each — saying other vaccines with less demanding storage requirements will be available soon.
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By the way, Wake Forest is in on it.

In North Carolina, the state encouraged vaccine shipment sites to have access to ultra-cold freezers, said Chris Ohl, professor of infectious diseases at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem. “Without it, you’re not going to be able to have much of a vaccine program,” he said. Not only do they help with Pfizer’s shot, but ultra-cold freezers are also an asset for distributing Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, which must be stored at -20 C. Though many medical and pharmaceutical freezers get that cold, an ultra-cold freezer will expand the availability of cold storage for those that don’t have access to one.

The North Carolina health department said that ultra-cold storage was not a requirement to be a vaccine provider, but that the federal government advised states to identify such sites for the very first vaccines distributed.
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So blue areas get the good vaccine and the red areas get the janky "vaccine" from some Trump toady's basement.




Just joking. Kind of.
 
PhDeac said:
So blue areas get the good vaccine and the red areas get the janky "vaccine" from some Trump toady's basement.




Just joking. Kind of.
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Hey, man. Some of us trying to still add a little rational thought to bumfuck. Don’t leave us behind.
 
 
Hmmmmm.

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Well I don't think conservatives are going to be too worried about coronavirus if all their leaders get it and no one dies.
 
I would call Ph out for stereotyping poor, white country rednecks, but if I asked a random Trumper walking down my Main Street to imagine a picture of your average Democrat, there’s a good chance that they’d come up with a black professor of Sociology(which they would assume had something to do with socialism). Is that irony?
 
Seems like CDC is now saying masks protect the wearer. We shoulda just lied and said that all along without knowing. Cause making it a selfless act was stupid as most of us are selfish.
 
stugotz said:
Seems like CDC is now saying masks protect the wearer. We shoulda just lied and said that all along without knowing. Cause making it a selfless act was stupid as most of us are selfish.
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Eh, the problem is that too many people think the risk isn’t great enough to themselves to justify the infringement on freedom wearing a mask entails.
 
mako1331 said:
I would call Ph out for stereotyping poor, white country rednecks, but if I asked a random Trumper walking down my Main Street to imagine a picture of your average Democrat, there’s a good chance that they’d come up with a black professor of Sociology(which they would assume had something to do with socialism). Is that irony?
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It's more about areas who continue to vote for politicians who don't do jack for them. And as we're seeing with COVID, they're hurting themselves to own the libs.

I have a good friend who works for the Congressional Research Service. Republican staffers regularly ask her how they can get more funding for rural hospitals. She tells them to expand Medicaid in their state because that's what it's for.
https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2020/05/...al-hospitals-open-in-14-non-expansion-states/

They look at her like she told them to turn the sky green.
 
WakeBored said:
Eh, the problem is that too many people think the risk isn’t great enough to themselves to justify the infringement on freedom wearing a mask entails.
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How does requiring mask infringe on freedom anymore than no shirt, no shoes, no service? Fuck your feelings. Wear a damn mask. Do that and we can go back to restaurants, watch SEC football, and send our kids back to school.
 
WakeBored said:
Eh, the problem is that too many people think the risk isn’t great enough to themselves to justify the infringement on freedom wearing a mask entails.
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I think it was more people were like What's the fuck?, the mask only helps if I have it and I don't know it and it only protects others and not me? I feel fine, fuck it.

If from the beginning it was like "initial viral load matters, you die if you get a lot of it, and you don't if you get a little, and the mask helps make it a little" you'd have a different outcome here.
 
stugotz said:
Seems like CDC is now saying masks protect the wearer. We shoulda just lied and said that all along without knowing. Cause making it a selfless act was stupid as most of us are selfish.
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This is correct. There’s a lot of research on the messaging of vaccine use, and by far the most effective message is that “it will protect you.”
 
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