Moreover, and please correct me if Iâm wrong, the virus isnât airborne on itâs own. It can only travel within water droplets (the real target of masks) typically larger than 3 microns, almost 1000x larger.
A few things. Good on her for at least extending out the mask mandate. Second the Alabama state crest has the stars and bars on it which must get under the skin of the sign language interpreter.
Wait, one of those autonomous cars that goes around hitting pedestrians and all of its own accord right?
Crossed with SkyNet and the Umbrella Corporation. That sums it up.
Wasnât that Bill Gatesâs insistence? Because actually heâs a far right wing fundamentalist.
>Infected organism detected. Engage in isolation and termination protocols.<
Oh yes. Donât let anyone fool you into thinking Gates is now some cuddly billionaire philanthropist.
Oxford backed off from its open-license pledge after the Gates Foundation urged it to find a big-company partner to get its vaccine to market.
Nightmare fuel. Understandable, but wowâŚ
Thereâs another story going around, that drug companies are slow-rolling vaccine to poorer countries in order to extort legal immunity from liabilities, and even demanding rights to national lands as collateral:
Bill Gates is a True Believer in the power of free-market capitalism. (And why shouldnât he be? His personal âlived experienceâ is that it works super well.) He urged Oxford to not open-source the patent so that they could attract a corporate partner like AstraZenica, and thatâs what they did. Oxford didnât have to do what Gates suggested, heâs not their boss, but modern universities are more than a little bit whorish. Oxford also owns roughly 50% of the shares in Vaccitech, which holds the patents.
My original point is that by going down this road Oxford has abandoned the ability to offer independent evaluations of the vaccine. We should treat this paper with the same skepticism that we would a paper on smoking dangers funded by a cigarette company.
WowâŚhadnât heard from Sweden for a bit, but generally presumed theyâd sorted things out and we tamping cases down. Instead of looks like things have gone to short there.
Iâm guessing the radically lower positivity numbers fitting the first wave are a combination of lower testing and also the concentration in more vulnerable populations.
While I can feel uneasy about the story of not ooen-sourcing a recipe for an adenovirus-based vaccine, I feel at least as uneasy about your statement.
You are actively undermining the acceptance of a vaccine which has stood scrutiny by many regulatory bodies, and which so far has already had an impact in mitigation of the pandemic.
I urge you to keep your misgivings about not ooen-sourcing the vaccine separate from factual critique of the vaccine itself.
