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What we learned doing Fast Grants
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#12> Most importantly, Fast Grants didn’t change the vaccine timeline, and vaccines were clearly the most important component of the response. They are being really intellectually honest here. One thing you couldn't apply for for Fast Grants was a media effort to convince people to take the vaccine. And speaking of the power of individuals, Robert De Niro ( https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et...…
What's disturbing is people taking health advice from celebrities instead of medical experts.
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#13> Most importantly, Fast Grants didn’t change the vaccine timeline, and vaccines were clearly the most important component of the response. They are being really intellectually honest here. One thing you couldn't apply for for Fast Grants was a media effort to convince people to take the vaccine. And speaking of the power of individuals, Robert De Niro ( https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et...…
Your comment is misleading.
DeNiro continued: “In the 15 years since the Tribeca Film Festival was founded, I have never asked for a film to be screened or gotten involved in the programming. However, this is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion, which is why we will be screening “Vaxxed.” I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the opportunity for a conversation around the issue.”
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#14The US has created so much bureaucracy, it's hard to imagine clawing ourselves out from under it.
If the gov't was a tech company, the laws that have been created are a massive amount of technical debt that has been built up over a century and rarely has anyone ever gone back to prune bad laws.
There was a commission created to discover how many LAWS there were in the U.S.
Just basic LAWS that people and institutions have to follow(because ignorance of the law is no excuse)
And after years the final conclusion from this commission was that it was impossible to know how many laws there are.
You can google that.
A ton of what governments deal with are problems THEY CREATE THEMSELVES.
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#15Fast Grants, but to fight climate change?
New emergencies generally offer more low hanging fruit.
I am doubtful that ~50M split into 260 grants would have any measurable impact on climate change. Just as this didn’t have any large wins. Arguably rather than research leveraging that into solar panels or other infrastructure would be a better use of funds.
In the end it’s a real gamble. One or more of those 4,000 applications was likely a great use of funds, but finding and funding it is hard especially if you’re trying to keep overhead low. Up the amount to say 1B/year and the tradeoffs become even harder between research and action.
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#16> Most importantly, Fast Grants didn’t change the vaccine timeline, and vaccines were clearly the most important component of the response. They are being really intellectually honest here. One thing you couldn't apply for for Fast Grants was a media effort to convince people to take the vaccine. And speaking of the power of individuals, Robert De Niro ( https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et...…
There's a difference between people who don't think vaccines are good as a whole...and people who question a rushed vaccine developed with no FDA oversight or testing by companies who have absolutely no liability if things go wrong for a disease that has 99.99% survival rate for most people.
And then there are questions about it even WORKING fully and one still has to wear a mask and you can still be contagious and it may not protect against other strains!
If that doesn't ring critical thinking bells in your brain then you're operating based on unquestioning BELIEF in the GOOD of the experts, gov't, and people in general which doesn't seem to always have worked out the best throughout history.
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#17> Making human clinical trials cheaper and quicker is probably one of the biggest opportunities for improving U.S. healthcare both during and beyond pandemics. The failure to accelerate vaccine development through challenge testing is a black mark on our ethical and regulatory system. the Moderna vaccine mRNA was developed two days after COVID-19 was identified, yet it took over a year to get through human testing. A…
How about we quit treating people like children and make all drugs legal?
The FDA stamp will just be a stamp of quality to help guide people to a known quality product.
No enforcement of drug laws at the barrel of an authorities gun.
But if people want to do some experimental off brand use that their doctor recommends then they can.
If people do their own research and want to self prescribe they can.
Getting the monopoly out of health care would reduce health care costs as well.
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#18> Most importantly, Fast Grants didn’t change the vaccine timeline, and vaccines were clearly the most important component of the response. They are being really intellectually honest here. One thing you couldn't apply for for Fast Grants was a media effort to convince people to take the vaccine. And speaking of the power of individuals, Robert De Niro ( https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et...…
Your comment is misleading. DeNiro continued: “In the 15 years since the Tribeca Film Festival was founded, I have never asked for a film to be screened or gotten involved in the programming. However, this is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion, which is why we will be screening “Vaxxed.” I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the oppor…
“Tribeca, as most film festivals, are about dialogue and discussion. Over the years we have presented many films from opposing sides of an issue. We are a forum, not a judge,” a spokeswoman said in a statement on behalf of the festival earlier this week.
GOOD. If you're correct your viewpoint will stand up to dialogue.
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#19> Most importantly, Fast Grants didn’t change the vaccine timeline, and vaccines were clearly the most important component of the response. They are being really intellectually honest here. One thing you couldn't apply for for Fast Grants was a media effort to convince people to take the vaccine. And speaking of the power of individuals, Robert De Niro ( https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et...…
What's disturbing is people taking health advice from celebrities instead of medical experts.
What about taking health advice from the NEWS MEDIA.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment is misleading. DeNiro continued: “In the 15 years since the Tribeca Film Festival was founded, I have never asked for a film to be screened or gotten involved in the programming. However, this is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion, which is why we will be screening “Vaxxed.” I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the oppor…
“Tribeca, as most film festivals, are about dialogue and discussion. Over the years we have presented many films from opposing sides of an issue. We are a forum, not a judge,” a spokeswoman said in a statement on behalf of the festival earlier this week. GOOD. If you're correct your viewpoint will stand up to dialogue.
Yeah, I don’t get the hostility. If an idea is bad, then let it be revealed as bad. Banning people just creates more conspiracy theorists.