And you use these cut and paste snippets from the Internet. Not impressed.
DUUUDE!!! Many many scientific publications are available on the internet! That delivery channel does NOT alter the scientific content!! Are you honestly trying to conflate the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with the garbage published by Qanon???
you claim to be trained in science yet you insist in mixing politics and hard scientific numbers together
It's a sad fact of modern American life that denial of science correlates positively with right-wing political leanings.
I've seen right-wingers here repeatedly claim that acid rain and the ozone hole were hoaxes ("why don't we hear about ... anymore"). And it's right-wing orthodoxy that global warming is a hoax.
Thus it comes as no surprise that the same science deniers (some also deny evolution and the geological age of the Earth) would also deny Covid and the tested efficacy of the mRNA vaccines. And the sad result of that denial shows up in relative Covid death rates in red vs blue counties. Chide me all you like, but the numbers don't lie.
And @MarmeeMarch says, of Covid vaccine development,
Doesn’t matter it was kicked off by Trump’s administration under Trump‘s watch whether you like it or not that’s a fact.
No, @MarmeeMarch, that's false. Trump did NOT "kick off" vaccine development around the world. Trump formally announced Operation Warp Speed on May 15, 2020, in the White House Rose Garden.
Meanwhile, on March 17, in Germany, Pfizer signed a letter of intent with BioNTech to co-develop a potential COVID-19 vaccine. By the time Trump announced Op Warp Speed, Pfizer was already conducting phase 1 trials.
Meanwhile, in Feb 2020, Oxford University started developing the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Oxford–AstraZeneca is a viral vector vaccine, one of MANY such vaccines efforts which were started in Feb & Mar 2020.
And Moderna, long before any input from the Trump admin, had also begun developing its mRNA vaccine. Moderna started phase 1 trials in Mar 2020; see https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/3/682
kicked off by Trump’s administration
You couldn't be more wrong. The fact is, Trump jumped onto an already rolling bandwagon, with dozens of efforts in multiple nations already underway, and in typical Trump style, Trump tried to take credit for the efforts of many others.
@MarmeeMarch Yep, that was towards the end of Moderna's phase III trial. If you look deeper into the timeline, you'll find Moderna initiated phase 1 trials in late MARCH 2020, which was LONG before Trump announced Op Warp Speed on May 15 2020. Thus Trump did NOT "kick off" vaccine development in any way shape or form; it was already well under way.
The fact is, Trump jumped onto an already rolling bandwagon, with dozens of efforts in multiple nations already underway, Other nations, thru their national health services, had already made similar promises to deliver vaccines. and in typical Trump style, Trump tried to take credit for the efforts of many others. Op Warp Speed was a fine idea, but it didn't "kick off" anything.
