@JohnnyShoulder Oy Vey, I hadn’t heard that but, somehow I’m not surprised. Disappointed in humanity, yes — but not surprised. There is no depth to which people will not stoop it seems.
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So the vaccines stateside... I suspect insurance covers this but what about the trillion* uninsured in this country... do they just pay out of pocket or are these things free?
*So it's not actually a trillion but i don't have time to be hunting down the actual figures, I just know it's a lot of people.
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@nessisonett it's looking far less likely now (civil war that is) but I won't feel at ease until inauguration day goes off without issue.
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@zupertramp I don’t know about the coverage of the vaccine over here, but I assume it will somehow be subsidized eventually. I think I saw something in an article somewhere about one of the companies (Pfizer maybe?) not charging for it. That article linked by Johnny had an internal link: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55228422
that I followed to an article about the Oxford vaccine and it had a nice table at the bottom which shows comparisons to some of the different vaccines coming out and their cost per dose. At $20 per dose, I sure hope some entity (the government or otherwise) will pick up the cost in order to save the hundreds of thousands of dollars that a single critical care hospitalization would cost the system.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Well Trump is trying to strongarm the vaccine companies into prioritising the US which, y’know, isn’t how it works. I wouldn’t hold your breath on getting the vaccine until a certain event in January.
@nessisonett the country that creates it should get it first imo...not the country that created this strand of covid either, they should never get the option.
@Jimmy_VNC82 What if it was scientists from a third world country who developed the vaccine, would you say they should get it first? Also, I hope you're joking - who created it?
"One of the unloveliest and least enlightening aspects of contemporary discourse is the tendency to presume that whatever one disagrees with must be very simple—not only simple, but also simply wrong." - Elizabeth Bruenig
The Trump administration failed to even secure enough doses of the Pfizer vaccine, despite it being offered multiple times.
God, how incompetent can you get?
Anyway, pretty much the entire world is eager to get its hands on the vaccines. Americans don't somehow get priority treatment just because our country is full of morons who allowed it to spread as quickly as it possibly could.
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It's not that serious...you will live and be just a ok if ya get it....most likely, youve already had a sickness in your lifetime worse than covid strand 19.
But ya know what really makes sense....locking down and shutting down restaurants but labeling the ABC stores and Walmart as essential....FFS.
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