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Re: Pfizer’s Covid-19 Pill is 89% Effective in Phase 2/3 Study

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> The race to vaccinate enough people is frankly impossible considering how politically charged it became. Fucking Republicans.

Please take your politically charged discourse elsewhere. This isn't the right place for mudslinging like this.

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You are completely wrong -- totally warped by the narrative. Look at the Pfizer press release, Nov 9, 2020 - the first sentence: "Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis" https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

Maybe I'm misinformed, but as I understood it, COVID-19 is the disease brought upon by SARS-Cov-2 infection. That line on its own doesn't suggest it prevents infection, it suggests it prevents the COVID-19 disease (i.e 90% chance of being left with a asymptomatic infection).

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> The race to vaccinate enough people is frankly impossible considering how politically charged it became. Fucking Republicans. Please take your politically charged discourse elsewhere. This isn't the right place for mudslinging like this.

I do agree with the general sentiment of keeping politics out of it.

But sadly there do seem to be some pretty strong correlations at a county level across the US. It could also be rural/urban cultural divides but the more obvious one is simply politics.

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That sounds low. Where did you get your numbers?

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There is very good data on this. Infection rates are roughly 5x higher, and death rates 13x higher, among the unvaccinated.

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> The race to vaccinate enough people is frankly impossible considering how politically charged it became. Fucking Republicans. Please take your politically charged discourse elsewhere. This isn't the right place for mudslinging like this.

If the mud fits, they need to wear it. Tone policing like this is mostly for their benefit.

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> Fucking Republicans

As a vaccinated, boosted republican, this attitude isn't helping. Yeah, there are a bunch of idiotic republican politicians out there. But there are also a lot of idiotic democrat politicians out there who aren't making COVID policy decisions based on science and evidence, but based on their ideological side: outdoor mask mandates, travel bans, blocking people's access to their own private property, etc. So no, not fucking republicans. Fucking tribalism. It's making humans act completely irrationally.

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That sounds low. Where did you get your numbers?

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Making up numbers isn't a very good way to be convincing.

Is that meteorologist bit supposed to be a reference to the Weather Underground?

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