2 COVID Vaccines Approved, End to Pandemic in Sight??

[Seagull]

The democratic party has been embracing communism and slavery since the time of Lincoln. I still can't understand how people allow it as a party in modern times.

No. Just... no. The parties switched sides/names during the Civil Rights era. The Southern Democrats went Republican after the Civil Rights Act was signed by LBJ. The Republicans who thought black persons were actually people went Democrat. https://www.history.com/news/how-the-par...atic-south

https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y

Parties never switched sides.

[dewisant]

Pfizer and Moderna both saying vaccines 90%+ effective, looks like the first doses to be given in December 2020.

Likely health workers and maybe first responders first in line to get the vaccine.  Then maybe we should just start at age 100+ yr old and work our way down the age bracket till we get to 18yr old.  I heard they still need to test in children so they won't get vaccine till summer.  Most everyone should get a vaccine by around March/April.

330 million population - 75 million (18yr & younger) = 255m population USA.  Maybe around 100- 125m will take vaccine.

At the same time, this virus looks like it's getting out of control again here in the U.S. and Europe.

This latest outbreak of COVID changing anyone's Thanksgiving plans?

Do you plan on taking the vaccine?

NEVER

[bjcheung77]

The last vaccine I had was about 15 years ago, it was for the Avian Flu - H5N1 a subtype of influenza A. I only got it as people at work got it as well because it was paid for... Hmm... it was at the time, the "scariest/weirdest" flu after the SARS scare. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1_vaccine And here's a list of vaccines, half of which I didn't heard of or know about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-pr...e_diseases

[LongRoad]

The democratic party has been embracing communism and slavery since the time of Lincoln. I still can't understand how people allow it as a party in modern times.

No. Just... no. The parties switched sides/names during the Civil Rights era. The Southern Democrats went Republican after the Civil Rights Act was signed by LBJ. The Republicans who thought black persons were actually people went Democrat. https://www.history.com/news/how-the-par...atic-south

As someone who has lived in Virginia since the late 50s, you know where of you speak, Rachel83az. The Byrd Machine was a Democratic entity and it was a racist organization in Virginia. Now? That honor goes to Virginia's Republican party. 

After the Civil War, the Democratic Party opposed Reconstruction. Dixiecrats had a convention in Alabama in 1948 when Pres. Harry S. Truman had a pro-civil rights party on the Democratic party's platform. Strom Thurmond ran on a States' Rights ticket.  (He eventually switched from the Democratic party to the Republican party.)

Eventually, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in '65. Steadily, the South moved from a Democratic stronghold until it became the Republican stronghold it is today.

[LevelUP]

This guy is so dangerous to the left; they won't even mention his name.





Today Democrats have this idea which is self-segregation.
The idea is that you be better off with your own kind. This pushes people to tribalism.

You see this in colleges, the Chaz zone in Seattle, and various laws Democrats are trying to pass.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/a...eremonies/

These leftist Democrats don't believe blacks are equal to whites.  This is where the idea of white privilege comes from.
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/128...3730203651?

However, melanin in the skin makes zero difference in intelligence.  In fact, the group closest to blacks in skin color are the Indians, which are the highest-earning class in the U.S which earn twice as much as whites on average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_et...old_income

So this is really all a political game to get votes and claim so-called systemic racism so they can tear down the system and rebuild it to favor the Democrat party and possibly move the country towards socialism.

“The white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed us. The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the black man.”

“White liberals are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the black man as our ‘friend’ to get our sympathy, our allegiance and our minds. The white liberal attempts to use us politically against white conservatives, so that anything the black man does is never for his own good, never for his advancement, never for his own progress, he’s only a pawn in the hands of the white liberal.”

“I only cite these things to show you that in America the history of white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make us think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white liberal. The only way that our problems will be solved is when the black man wakes up, cleans himself up, stands on his own two feet, stops begging the white liberal and takes immediate steps to do for ourselves the things that we have been waiting on the white liberal to do for us.”

“The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent look guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the mind of the masses.”

“The Democrats are playing you for a political chump and if you vote for them, not only are you a chump, you are a traitor to your race.”

The person who spoke these words was Malcolm-X. He was assassinated two days after expressing the last quote. How ironic. Just saying.

The identity politics that is rooted in victim mentality needs to end.  Pretty much all of us start from nothing and have to build our own futures.  In the U.S. everyone has already won the lottery just by being here, we earn 5x, 20x what most people in the world earn.

As we exit this COVID haze, it's going to be time for all of us to reach out our hands and support each other.  Not just for the benefit of others but for ourselves as well.

[dfrecore]

The democratic party has been embracing communism and slavery since the time of Lincoln. I still can't understand how people allow it as a party in modern times.

No. Just... no. The parties switched sides/names during the Civil Rights era. The Southern Democrats went Republican after the Civil Rights Act was signed by LBJ. The Republicans who thought black persons were actually people went Democrat. https://www.history.com/news/how-the-par...atic-south

As someone who has lived in Virginia since the late 50s, you know where of you speak, Rachel83az. The Byrd Machine was a Democratic entity and it was a racist organization in Virginia. Now? That honor goes to Virginia's Republican party. 

After the Civil War, the Democratic Party opposed Reconstruction. Dixiecrats had a convention in Alabama in 1948 when Pres. Harry S. Truman had a pro-civil rights party on the Democratic party's platform. Strom Thurmond ran on a States' Rights ticket.  (He eventually switched from the Democratic party to the Republican party.)

Eventually, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in '65. Steadily, the South moved from a Democratic stronghold until it became the Republican stronghold it is today.

Just an FYI, LBJ was known to be a frequent user of the N word - he said it regularly in private conversation.  This man was no friend to black people, he was racist and used them to his own end.  But believe what you want.

[LevelUP]

Some updates on vaccines.

AstraZeneca/Oxford is doing a U.S. trial of 30,000 people, EUA likely won't come till sometime in spring for the U.S. Already approved in the UK.
(Given that billions of this vaccine will be produced, why did the U.S. wait so long to start phase 3 trials?)

Johnson and Johnson is doing a U.S. trial of 45,000 people, EUA expected in February. 

Novavax just started phase 3 trials, EUA would likely come sometime in the spring.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/...us-vaccine


Vaccine Dose Tracker:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid...tribution/

Israel has so far vaccinated 18% of its population.  Israel PM Netanyahu says all citizens over 16 will be vaccinated by end of March.  “We will be the first country to emerge from the coronavirus,” Netanyahu said
https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/israel-pm-...9-vaccine/

U.S. should have 7.5% to 10% vaccinated by the end of January. (2% now)

[LongRoad]

LBJ was LOTS of not nice things. But as SO many followers of Pres. Trump have said, God uses imperfect tools. 

There is a nurse with a Ph.D. in England, John Campbell, who has been using Youtube to teach nurses for years. I go to him for clarity when I have questions about COVID 19, studies, etc. If you're a nursing student or taking some of the sciences in that field, you might want to check out some of his older videos.

[Scorcher]

It's been a year with everyday ghosips that we got a vaccine, but none of them is used..

[MrBossmanJr]

I just got the Moderna vaccine yesterday. Nothing, but a sore arm. I hear it's worse for people who had COVID-19 previously or more senior people.