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President Joe Biden says he will request more funding for a new coronavirus vaccine
(abcnews.go.com)
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Yes, keep making more vaccines but don’t make people wear masks and keep distances. Theres literally nothing we can do to prevent diseases spreading besides vaccines. Surely covid was the last virus to threaten us.
When do we stop wearing masks, in your estimation? Never, since airborne diseases will always exist?
When you’re not breathing ten centimeters away from me. Thank you
Oh, so since I'm not breathing ten centimeters from your face, does that mean now?
You're the first anti-vax, pro-mask person I've ever seen.
Mate, im not anti vax. Im simply saying that the vaccine is not the only way for us to defend against diseases. We can do things to prevent them, much cheaper and quite reasonable things.
Masks required a large chunk of the population to follow the rules, which will never happen sadly
We really ought to make jobs that can be remote have to justify undue hardship to RTO too.
Okay, but updated vaccines are still vital, as is funding them.
But were focusing only on vaccines and under capitalism i’m not so sure that our money is that effectively spent when transferred to pharma corporations. Isnt it insane that we’ve had three separate vaccines developed for the same virus when we really needed one?
Wait... so you're saying scientific research into vaccines shouldn't explore multiple avenues in case one is more effective than the others? Something you can't do without funding?
Oh it should, but maybe under one organization, so we do not end up with one corporation undermining the effectiveness of the other simply for more profit.
Okay, but that's just not how things work right now. That's wishful thinking. Right now, the government funds private research. I don't like it either, but that's the way we will get future COVID vaccines.
Vaccinations are by far the cheapest way to defend against a disease like COVID at scale. You are being disingenuous.
I think the money spent on the development of the vaccine says otherwise.
Also, we had to wait for a covid vaccine for a year (or more? Already hazy) while common sense and hygiene were ready to go before the pandemic. We need to prevent those things from happening and slow them down before we know they exist. Waiting around for the next virus thinking that we’ll just make a vaccine might be a real shitty move if its more contagious and deadly than covid.