Lmao

Ted Cruz is such a ****

22 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Ted Cruz is such a ****

To be fair, Cruz’s point may still stand as while their home base may be in Germany, they do have an office in Boston. I don’t know where it was developed exactly (could’ve been somewhere in EU, US, or elsewhere), so he could also (and quite possibly) be wrong.

Surprisingly the right move. I guess it comes down to "watch what they do not what they say” but the optics work better this way 

 

7 minutes ago, Smokesdawg said:

Surprisingly the right move. I guess it comes down to "watch what they do not what they say” but the optics work better this way 

 

They’ve all had Covid already.

1 minute ago, Dave Moss said:

They’ve all had Covid already.

Herd immunity works for them. 

16 minutes ago, RPeeteRules said:

To be fair, Cruz’s point may still stand as while their home base may be in Germany, they do have an office in Boston. I don’t know where it was developed exactly (could’ve been somewhere in EU, US, or elsewhere), so he could also (and quite possibly) be wrong.

It was undoubtably an international effort.  The phase 3 trial site locations were all around the world and BioNtech did partner with Pfizer.  However Pfizer took zero money from the US government and BioNtech was inarguably the main developers in the actual vaccine  (the vaccine itself is named BNT162b2).  The US taking a victory lap over developing the vaccine is kinda like Ringo taking credit for The White Album.  

20 minutes ago, Smokesdawg said:

Surprisingly the right move. I guess it comes down to "watch what they do not what they say” but the optics work better this way 

 

This doesn’t seem like something he’d tweet.  It’s the right thing to tweet, but doesn’t fit his style to tweet this.

6 minutes ago, RPeeteRules said:

This doesn’t seem like something he’d tweet.  It’s the right thing to tweet, but doesn’t fit his style to tweet this.

If he tweeted that they should vaccinate the incoming administration first then you’d know it was fake.

40 minutes ago, RPeeteRules said:

To be fair, Cruz’s point may still stand as while their home base may be in Germany, they do have an office in Boston. I don’t know where it was developed exactly (could’ve been somewhere in EU, US, or elsewhere), so he could also (and quite possibly) be wrong.

I believe all the work on bnt162 was at their German labs. 

Cruz would've been "right" if he said manufactured instead of developed, or if he had said "one of the vaccines" to imply a reference to moderna. But even then he'd still look dumb because his whole point to begin with was to pander to idiots who seal clap at anything that resembles American exceptionalism. The reality is that this was very much a global effort even if that makes some people roll their eyes.

It's the truth though, starting from a Chinese lab that took a big risk to publish the full genome, to vaccine devs from Germany, US, UK, France, etc who got to work within days to crank out candidates, to the big pharma giants that partnered with the devs to expedite manufacturing, planning, and enrolling large scale trials, and of course the governments that bank rolled a lot of it along the way (including the German gov for BNTX, even though PFE didn't take a dime from our gov.) Point is, as cliche as it sounds, we really are all in this together, and we'll have many different people from many different countries to thank after it's all said and done.

39 minutes ago, Toty said:

I have a theory that girls with really pretty feet and eyes don't actually have bowel movements

It's not easy to test, though without drilling holes in walls

at my work, we have 3 people out because their so's have the covid.   

 

 

Really good article on mutations and their potential impact to vaccine effectiveness.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has so far mutated slowly, allowing scientists and policy makers to keep on top of its progress. Still, scientists have been divided on the implications of some of the mutations. Some experts have reported that the D614G variation has made the virus more transmissible, however other studies have contradicted that.

Either way, the changes so far have not resulted in strains that would likely be resistant to vaccines in development. In fact, one study by a group of scientists from several institutions including the University of Sheffield and Harvard University found that G strains might present an easier target for a vaccine because these strains have more spike proteins on their surface, which are the target of vaccine-induced antibodies.

https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/EVOLUTION/yxmpjqkdzvr/index.html

ain't nuthin but a g strain, baaaaaaaaaby 

Last night I made mention of the chinese lab that stuck their necks out and published the full genome sequence at great risk. For the full story on the man behind it all, Time did a good write-up on him and the events that transpired in those early days. 

https://time.com/5882918/zhang-yongzhen-interview-china-coronavirus-genome/

Yeah I’m pretty much done not replying to stupid peoples posts on Facebook when it comes to Covid and the vaccine. 
 

The stupid is too much. I can’t handle people sprouting stupidity. It’s fun arguing with stupid people though. Guaranteed win every time. 

5 hours ago, Toty said:

I have a theory that girls with really pretty feet and eyes don't actually have bowel movements

It's not easy to test, though without drilling holes in walls

i have bad news for you and your theory. 

 

2 minutes ago, Toty said:

Is that the hole in the porta potty from Van Halen at the Susquehanna center 2015?

If so... I can explain...

OOOOKAAYYY

Either the media is biased or Trump is literally performing miracles out here:

 

17 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Either the media is biased or Trump is literally performing miracles out here:

 

So instead of churches Trumpbots have been giving their 10% to him, makes sense 

 

 

Dude is really orange in that picture as well 

Just passed 300k dead.

 

Coming soon to an NFL playoff game near you?

Imagine going 5-10-1, finishing 2nd place in the NFC East, and then end up playing in a playoff game because the 1st place team can't even field enough players. That would be so 2020 if it weren't theoretically taking place in early 2021.