outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

And yeah I do appreciate that you unlike me are a scientist but above info was sought out by me on the basis of reassurance bc I really don’t know how I would cope if something of the above does happen! So basically I am hoping that the logic of the JCVI does hold and that it all turns out ok, and I guess we’ll find out sooner rather than later.

First (eldest) member of my extended family will get vaccinated next week!

:) awesome!

I put a note on my calendar for June 15, 2022, which is the earliest date I assume I'll be able to get the vaccine. As someone who doesn't fall into any of the higher risk categories, I'll be in the last group, which is fair and appropriate - no complaints on that front. I just want to approach this a little more realistically and I'm baffled by hearing folks I work with talking as if we will all have it by this June. That feels like madness, given what we've seen so far and what we know at this point about Biden's team having to effectively start over with a distribution plan.

This is not more realistic

Eh, I think it's downright optimistic for a pessimist like me, given that the current rate for my state puts us at +/- 5 years for 80% of the residents to get vaccinated.

Majority vaccination in September at best, imo... and that's assuming most people who even want it, will get it. There will probably be at least 10-20% of the population who will refuse the vax or believe their acquired immunity is enough

the vaccine was just approved fairly recently and it's not until literally yesterday that we installed a federal government that cares if you live or die. I don't think we'll be "at the current rate" for long.

right

Oh absolutely, don't get me wrong, I'm actually feeling much more optimistic now that the Biden administration is taking over, without a doubt. But, it's not like he just flips a switch and it gets instantly better. If there was truly no plan, there is a ton of supply chain and distribution issues that need to be addressed, likely new contracts and agreements hammered out, etc etc. As pointed out above, we'll hope that Biden's team was smart enough to already have pieces in motion to make it as smooth as possible, but it will be weeks, possibly even months, until we see a demonstrable difference on the vaccine quantities "in the wild" and an appreciable rise in vaccination rates from state-to-state.

I mean...

Majority vaccination in September at best, imo...

This feels right, but we're talking "at best". So playing that out, a reasonable target 9 months after that doesn't seem that crazy to me.

Surprising absolutely not one, today we discover that…

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/report-biden-admin-discovers-trump-had-zero-plans-for-covid-vaccine-distribution

Yep, exactly what I was referring to upthread. Thought that was already linked itt, but must have seen it in one of the politics threads.

*no one

xp ah, my bad.

no it's good to put here as well, yeah it was on uspol but that'll fly by in seconds

^ otm

This is good posting

Professor @Schwarzenegger’s Facebook class is back in session in the comments on his vaccine video. pic.twitter.com/47rmniAK5M

— Daniel Ketchell (@ketch) January 20, 2021

lol i almost cried reading that. my second-cousin is posting a lot of anti-vaxxer content on instagram and i feel like i can't convince her of anything

Implying there is such a thing as a society and that you can trust 'experts' you've never met in person. Pff…

"if your vaccine is so safe, why won't you admit it's not?"

Well, you see, Brad, every time someone says you ought to give credence to knowledgeable individuals, the subtext is that they're manipulating you into submission with the backing of Big Pharma. Real critical thinking consists of doing the exact opposite of what you're told, because truths are lies and lies are truths.

If you'd told me I'd live to see Arnold Schwarzenegger become one of the more sober public voices in a time of crisis...

"if your vaccine is so safe, why won't you admit it's not?"

Sadly this is not too far off from screenshots my wife sent me from some member of her extended family.

I’m going to start all my good posts with “I have been called the greatest body builder of all time@ now

THE EXPERTS WERE NEVER EXPERTS, THE SOUL FORCE IS WITHIN U, WAKE UP DOLLY CLONES!

wish arnold would post on thread of getting sw0le

if you want to learn about building biceps, listen to me

He will pump you up, iirc.

remember when he called anti-Iraq war ppl "girly men"

way to be offensive and ruin Hanz and Franz!

Arnold showed up at my brother's soccer tournament as a special guest once. kinda bizarre that this is who you'd invite to a soccer tourney as a guest star and not like, idk, an actual soccer player.

he had a bunch of cameras around him and people threw him soccer balls and he tried to head them. he missed half of them

when I was 7 or 8 my Dad met him and called us to have him say hello. Though I strongly suspect it was just Dad doing a bad impression.

lol

Big Sturm Graz fan, Arnie.

haha xxp

UK media and politicians are increasingly exchanging "have received the first dose" with "have been vaccinated" - I'm sure it will be fine...

Still so many cases and so much death, but the big picture, at least, for the first time in a long time, is tentatively encouraging. "The underlying trends are moving in the right direction for most of the country."

The latest from @COVID19Tracking: https://t.co/0TKtaJEZFX

— Paul Bisceglio (@PaulBisceglio) January 21, 2021

given that LA county is responsible for a pretty significant fraction of the cases right now, and is clearly over the hump, this is not surprising to me, but it's good news.

i've been hearing way fewer sirens for about a week now now.

Letter by BMA to Chris Whitty seen by BBC calls for gap between Pfizer vaccine doses to be reduced from 12 weeks to 6. BMA claims UK strategy looks isolated internationally - also concerns over whether 12 week delay might not allow second doses of the Pfizer to be guaranteed

— Hugh Pym (@BBCHughPym) January 22, 2021

Throw Bill Gates and his family out of a helicopter

Is the Gates Foundation the biggest catastrophe that has happened to global public health? https://t.co/2YsudgAdbv

— Laleh Khalili (@LalehKhalili) January 24, 2021

Can't open source the microchip tbf.

This 12 week between jabs that the UK has decided on is a fucking massive disaster just waiting around the corner, imho.

If it's not it'll be blind luck rather than considered planning.

Fist bump from Quebec, one of the few other places in the world that's gambling with its guinea pigs.

Our government here in the UK has bungled every single stage of the pandemic so far so it's no surprise that they're also going to fuck up the vaccine rollout

distributing *anything* evenly and fairly isn't the tory way

First time I’ve ever thought, “Fuck off, The Onion”

https://i.imgur.com/JMXuUjx.jpg

I don't get the 'joke'.

Yeah me neither

enough is enough, i'm switching to the borowitz report full-time

I assume it’s just that it’s the opposite of what you’d expect from Jimmy Carter. But it doesn’t really matter - there are many people who take Onion headlines at face value because whatever, and when there’s a public health crisis it should not be playing with people’s lives like that

Xpost

This is @Illinois_Alma campus from noon today. The first weekend since bars can do indoor seating and this is what happens. pic.twitter.com/SPLT1rKLty

— Kyle Patterson 🧼👏🏽😷 (@kpatterson1216) January 23, 2021

Not feeling great about my state’s chances right now.