Joe Biden walking into some treacherous territory with this vaccine distribution. He has bought into the idea of distributing all doses of the vaccines rather than holding second shot supplies in reserve for people who have already had their first shot but still need another. He is happy with himself for taking that aggressive move. That will immediately increase supply and get him some points right while he taking office. Problem is- the continuous supply is not there once that bubble held in reserve is used up. That's when Joe will have to start earning his paycheck - a/k/a blaming Trump. The lefties will rise to say that Trump also ended out favoring the idea of distributing the second dose shots in advance with the hope/trust that future supply could backfill. The difference is though that Trump knows that he made Warp Speed happen by busting heads, twisting arms every step of the way in regard to both the pharma companies and the bureaucracies and fully expected that keeping the supply going would also require that. Not sure that Joe does that kind of work. I am pretty sure he will do the blaming-trump work though. Joe says his plan is going to involve vaccines, distribution, masks and lots of money and lots of blaming Trump. Okay Joe, that's a surprise. OR NOT Biden unveils COVID-19 vaccine plan, with focus on mass inoculations https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...accine-plan-with-a-focus-on-mass-inoculations
Logic would say that. And certainly the second dose coming a month later rather than two weeks out probably would not make much difference. Having said that, there is a very substantial, credible body of scientists who argue that a single dose partial-protection approach is the road to hell. You are simply creating an environment where the virus is weakened but not knocked-out and the virus just adapts and gets smarter and more virulent. You can compare it to antibiotics. Taking antibiotics always, always comes with the warning- or should anyway- that you MUST take it all the way to the end of your prescribed treatment. In other words, do not stop just because you feel well. The reason is that if you do not knock out the bacteria completely then the ones that have survived are smarter and tougher now and your condition will flare up bigger and badder and that particular antibiotic is useless to you now. Similar to just giving someone a weaker dose of protection against covid. or so it is argued by some. I don't have a position on that right now, but I include that among things that should be seriously considered. Could too much time between doses drive the coronavirus to outwit vaccines? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...tween-doses-drive-coronavirus-outwit-vaccines
I see that they are having "designated protest areas" for protesters in DC. So you go within a controlled fenced in, caged in area surrounded by 25000 soldiers to protest and as long as you stay there and do not get too rowdy there will be no problems. Gee, that sounds good. I wonder if that is coming to my area anytime soon such that the lefty mobs and protesters will have to stay within "a designated protest area" which will be surrounded by troops and police. Probably not soon, I am going to guess. So far, quite a few cities designated your home or business as a designated protest area. See if you can spot the difference.
I can't believe people are so dumb. I know several people who are going to DC and I can't talk them out of it. So I'll spell it out. Everyone, and I mean everyone passing through Dulles or Reagan will have facial recognition attributes pulled and appended with cellular metadata and written to a database under Ft. Meade for further associative analysis meaning connecting it to all of your digital presence online, medical records, public records where the whole result can be queried by other processes all over the government. Some of those people with "other flags" like use of encrypted messaging etc will be assigned some tasking to decode that traffic for keyword searches etc. The "war on terror" allows the entire infrastructure to be used for domestic purposes by law. Stay far away from DC if you have a brain in your head.
I am sure getting more people the first shot now will be backed hopefully by a large logistics push to get more shots out to those areas again. But most states are still in Phase 1 right now anyway so the push for more single doses is still going after Phase 1 (elderly, front line workers, teachers). I think hitting those people withint the next 6 weeks will take care of most at risk and get schools open and then they can move to 2 qand 3 for general public.
And of course, Johnson and Johnson's vaccine will be approved sometime in the next 6 weeks and that is a one-shot vaccine so that helps. And yes, whatever supply projections they have made will get lowered because that is the nature of things. But it is coming and it will ramp up at some point and contribute toward a better scenario toward the middle of the summer. But probably their upfront projections will turn out to be a big dump and everyone will seize on that. The longer picture for it is good though I think. That will make three approved vaccines. All will have big problems for the next three months so whining will be the norm. But they will come out of it. Pearl Harbor was a bitch. We got caught off guard and did all the wrong things from a planning point of view. A disaster. We ignored all the signals, we concentrated the entire fleet in a vulnerable area and brushed off reports that the kamikaze planes were just miles away. Next, the taking of the islands from the Japs was a complete disaster from a planning and readiness point of view. The number of men required and the time required and the strength of the enemy was vastly, vastly underestimated. Somehow we moved forward. Probably there were some who chose to write books about how we fucked up at Pearl Harbor while the war was raging and that was their contribution to the war effort.
Have Biden's handlers announced yet that illegals arriving will be released into the community but that they will receive priority for vaccination because we must protect Americans? Not to forget. Joe is looking out for you. The announcement that they will be designated as "essential illegals" is probably still a few weeks away but it is coming. And as you know, because you hear it on a daily basis from the dems, country was founded by illegal immigrants. OR NOT.
"Essential illegal immigrants" This is a laugher of a line, that's for sure. "This country was founded by illegal immigrants". Also, a laugher. Leftist brain damage creates these kind of thoughts. Not sure why, but it's true.