Just like masks, the vaccine doesn’t just benefit them. It benefits everyone who would be infected by them.
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Given the overwhelming whiteness of the movement, and for the moment disregarding the huge overlap with antivaxxers, they will most likely assume they should actually be given preference in vaccine distribution. I kid not, hide and wait.
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Or when anyone suggests reconciliation with “former” Trump supporters.
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Careful what you wish for.
Also, it seems that the Trump admin can put this in their books. The US government has gambled here with their funding, since AFAIR, moderna does not have a history in developing successful vaccines.
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When health care workers in Nevada and Vermont reported false positives, HHS defended the tests and threatened Nevada with unspecified sanctions until state officials agreed to continue using them in nursing homes. It took several more weeks for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue an alert on Nov. 3 that confirmed what Nevada had experienced: Antigen tests were prone to giving false positives, the FDA warned.
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On Fox News, Dr. Scott Atlas encourages large holiday gatherings: “For many people this is their last Thanksgiving”
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Well, he’s not wrong…
Ok, we need to talk about medical subspecialization for a moment. Only a moment, I promise. First thing to know is that medicine is a huge field. Really, unbelievably, mind-bogglingly big and diverse. That is why there are specialties. For instance, I am a pediatrician. I know buttloads about child development, infectious diseases, pharmacology and so forth as it relates to children. I am not so knowledgeable as you move away from my field, so if you want to discuss the finer points of obstetrics or vascular surgery, I am most likely not your man. Scott Atlas MD is a neuroradiologist. This is a subspecialty of a specialty. I would not question his ability to interpret an MRI of a brain or an angiogram. That is his field. He is not a psychiatrist, an epidemiologist or an infectious disease specialist. He has no training or experience in these areas. He is, however, a fellow at the Hoover Institute, famed for issuing official sounding proclamations supporting whatever nonsense is spewing from the right wing nutjobs at the time. As such, for the Whitehouse he is a useful idiot, as he will support anything they say no matter how stupid and the fact that he has MD after his name makes it seem that he is qualified to do so. In fact, that he is equally qualified as Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual trained infectious disease doctor with decades of experience dealing with epidemics. He is not Dr. Fauci’s equal in this area. I daresay, I have more epidemiology and ID (infectious disease) training and experience than the illustrious Dr. Atlas. If we were discussing how to interpret radiological findings in a stroke patient, I would listen to him. We are not. He is unqualified to comment, unqualified to lead and seriously needs to crawl back into whatever hole he crawled out of. If someone needed their appendix removed, or their lymphoma treated, or their brain MRI read, and they came to me, I would send them to someone qualified to help them. The fact that the best the Trump administration could do to support their bogus claims was Dr. Atlas says a lot abut the strength of those claims. The fact that Dr. Atlas feels no shame in making the statements that he does says a lot about him.
(Edit for a couple dumb spelling errors)
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Christ on a cracker, how is it so hard for these people to be a good example?
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She would have to start by being good, which if it hasn’t happened in the first 80 years…
It’s important to remember that a lot of California politicians are Democrats only because they live in California. Case in point:
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Forget guillotines, where’s my lethal injection table emoticon?
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A case could be made for vaccinating them first, while the sensible people keep wearing masks, washing hands, socially distancing and keeping tight circles.
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Soon it’ll be safe to spit?
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Or lungs, I presume?
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We’ve just got to shine a light up in there. Or bleach. I can’t keep up.
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I mean, that could be true IF THEY GO TO LARGE FAMILY GATHERINGS…
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Great, another product that will soon be impossible to find in stores. 
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I’m really sick and tired of this tone. The examples of “Do Everything ‘Right’” and headings used in this… 
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She and Grassley can convalesce together someday.
Me too. This phrase keeps my wife up at night.
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I’d at least like to believe that there are a lot of people worried about never working again, though not foolish enough to think that anyone actually will be held to any kind of account.
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