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Why wasn't it changed for Delta? yes, I know, it was "good enough". But if the goal was not to overrun our healthcare facilities then we failed miserably on that front. Sure, it's said that the vaccines prevented deaths but it didn't prevent people from taking up a bed while they got better. You don't have to die to use medical resources.
If mRNA is so easily edited, then there was no reason not to edit it to stop the spread of Delta. It supposedly was capable of dong that with previous variants. I don't think the vaccines are nearly as flexible as they want us to think and I don't think it was capable of stopping the spread of any variant. The timing was just such that Delta gave us an excuse for its inadequacy.
I believe because it was felt that the current vaccine was very effective against Delta, and so not worth the time involved in producing a new version:
As for failing miserably about preventing our health facilities from being overwhelmed: since some 80 million people in the United States refuse the vaccine, it is no wonder that infections remain high and are again rising.
As noted, if not for the overwhelming public acceptance of the polio vaccine, we would still have kids in iron lungs.
Totally....maybe require Americans to hug unvaccinated and unquarantined new arrival from Africa to prove you're not racist. Members of the Politburo exempted from any requirements.
This is yet more proof that humans are spending far too much time and money fighting stupid wars and not enough into streamlining the scientific processes for monitoring and preventing communicable illnesses. The threat posed by new mutated viruses is as grave as the threat posed by "enemy" humans. It's time to start acting like it. Resources need to be massively pumped into scientific infrastructure and basic medical supplies, and associated manufacturing. We do not have ANY time to waste on more stupidity.
Couldn't rep you again, so just responding to say I completely agree. Infectious diseases have always been the greatest threat to humanities existence. Even in the worst case scenario, a nuclear war could take our selected chunks of the population, but the survivors would simply go on and procreate as we always have.
In contrast, a disease like Coronavirus is lurking and ready to destroy much of civilization if left unchecked. This should be priority number one in any Federal budget. Just like we assembled the greatest scientists and engineers in the world during the Manhattan Project to develop the nuclear bomb, our response to Covid should be of the same magnitude. Instead, we seem to be hoping that the private sector will step forward to save the day. Don't see a lot of difference between Trump and Biden in that regard. We hear words and platitudes but are not seeing the leadership and actions that we need to truly prepare for this deadly threat.
First discovered in Zimbabwe now in Israel and Honk Kong bypassing Delta in South Africa. What will this mean? Largest yet changes to spike protein. One year after Beta hit the region. I assumed it would be a matter of time until a new variant being to spread rapidly. Here we are. Is this the one that has been feared or not?
I refuse to be terrified by more "variants". This is too much. If they had let this go through the population like normal we would be done with this nonsense by now.
Talk about the boy who cried wolf..
My employers can simply no longer put things off. Like most of us in the western world.. they have just had it and simply don't care anymore.
This is imho, just evidence of how incompetent the people in charge are.
People just have to lose weight, stop eating sugar, and take their vitamin d. These are the only options we know actually so something. The "vaccination" short cut doesn't work. # science!
Maybe Nancy and Joe can schedule a few thousand free flights from Africa to bring and spread the variant across the nation.
They are already marching across the border in THOUSANDS as we speak…..
Soon to be flown all over the country to infect us at taxpayers expense
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