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Well hopefully money serves as a tool for prioritizing resources for important problems. Seems to be working well in this case.
The added incentive is survival of the species.
They will do the work, if the money comes from somewhere else.
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I live in Kansas and have basically forgotten COVID is a thing. The people who wanted to get vaccinated like me have and those who haven’t, haven’t. Nobody asks about it and no businesses have any sort of mask requirements. Half of the people at the grocery store wear masks and the other half don’t. Everyone seems to be getting along. Next door in Kansas City Missouri I stopped at a gas station and an employee was sh…
> I guess 5 miles difference magically makes COVID much more contagious. No, 5 miles means you have a different government with a different policy response. (The difference itself doesn't justify either side.) That's just inherent in the existence of political borders.
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>I guess 5 miles difference magically makes COVID much more contagious. In my nearest town (in the UK) there are two supermarkets. In the budget one (Aldi) nobody wears a mask, in the upmarket one (Waitrose) everybody does.
I've noticed that, Waitroses and doctor's surgeries seem to be the last bastion of English mask-wearing. I wonder what the correlation actually is fundamentally? Waitrose's clientele are wealthier and therefore older and more concious of COVID?
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Therefore how can you trust this drug? Follow the money! It’s just big science trying to propagate a pandemic to make more money! If this sounds insane, we’ll ok just reflecting the common anti vax sentiments I hear on this web site (ugh).
It won't happen, because the explicit arguments are just pretexts. After The Lancet/Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy (and other popular media figures), the word "vaccine" is now simply triggering of aggressive suspicion. That media panic combining with: 1) the 80s New Age/Self-Help/Healthy Living/Naturopathic flakes, 2) the suspicions of black people who are generally neglected and sometimes abused by the health care ind…
That ship sailed weeks ago on the Twittersphere, once news of the new drug's development came out. According to half of the idiots, the announcement explains why horse paste had to be "suppressed," given that ivermectin was inexpensive, already approved for human use, and unpatentable. The other half maintained that no, the new Pfizer compound was unalloyed good news, because they no longer needed to worry about getting the "untested," "experimental" vaccine.
Covid-19 was actually pretty mild when it comes down to it, when a real disease comes along, we're all dead.
Exactly, SARS-CoV-2 amounts to a dress rehearsal. We know how the real thing is going to play out now, and oh, boy.
It’s crazy that money is such a huge incentive. Knowing that a cure for Covid is a potentially $100B market means you throw the kitchen sink at it. Imagine being this lab. Do you think they ever had trouble hiring an assistant? Buying new equipment? Getting bonuses? This environment must be fantastically different from the typical meat grinder of bio R&D.
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Every business exists to make money, the same with most people.
So no business can exist that seeks something other than money? Non-profits and not-for-profits are not businesses?
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Oh I think it will be gladly accepted by unvaccinated folk. The reason being is most unvaccinated people don’t believe it isn’t effective, they don’t like being forced to protect themselves by a bunch of moral busybodies. I just accepted as soon as we saw that covid was spreading so quickly, welp I’m gonna get that. I figured I wouldn’t be that affected by it and wasn’t. Our parents said, well if I get it I get it, a…
>The reason being is most unvaccinated people don’t believe it isn’t effective, they don’t like being forced to protect themselves by a bunch of moral busybodies. I think this is something that's very understated in public discussion around COVID-19, I got vaccinated because I weighed up the odds and thought it made sense from both a social and a personal cost/benefit perspective. I didn't get vaccinated because I wa…
People hold irrational beliefs (JFK Jr. is still alive), the earth is flat, on and on.
And America in many respects can be incredibly anti-intellectual. Being smart is often a negative in a lot of environments.
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I live in Kansas and have basically forgotten COVID is a thing. The people who wanted to get vaccinated like me have and those who haven’t, haven’t. Nobody asks about it and no businesses have any sort of mask requirements. Half of the people at the grocery store wear masks and the other half don’t. Everyone seems to be getting along. Next door in Kansas City Missouri I stopped at a gas station and an employee was sh…
In California, except for wearing masks in retail establishments, everything has been back to normal for months. School has been full time in person, and traffic sucks once again.
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Masks became a regular fixture in Asia after original SARS. Not by regulation, but they just became an ordinary item used by people to avoid getting sick or avoid getting others sick.
Having been to many parts of Asia before Covid hit, masks were indeed not unusual, but were never worn by _everyone_ or even the majority of people, even in crowded places like subways.