Mattressburn said:AggieT said:Mattressburn said:
The ironic thing or sad thing or whatever thing. Operation Warp Speed was one of the greatest accomplishments in human history in my opinion. Trump could own that if he wanted to. I think it succeeded despite him, but it would be his to own if he wanted it.
If I am speaking honestly though. Even though I know how herd immunity works and I realize there are those that literally can't be vaccinated because their body won't develop an immune response. Covid wasn't even that bad. Could've been a lot deadlier.
When something more contagious with a higher mortality count comes along. First I hope there is an easy vaccine. 2nd I hope you anti vaxxers stick to your guns.
The race of humanity will thank you for your sacrifice to the survival of the fittest. It sucks for those immunocompromised that you might infect with your ignorance literally, but we are past that. I did what I could do for them including calling out idiots who put them in danger.
Just looking at the 10,000 foot view though.
Thanks you're literally killing ignorance although you will suicide bomb a few around you. In the grand scheme of humanity I think that works out ok.
Wow. That's your hindsight view of Covid and the vaccines?
The leap from decades of research to mere months of development is a generational triumph that most of human history would have considered magic. It is the biological equivalent of going from the Wright Brothers to SpaceX in a single bound. We have effectively cracked the code on human response times.
It is staggering to realize that we successfully deployed a smallpox vaccine before we even had a functional germ theory to explain why it worked. That was pure survival instinct backed by observation. Before the measles vaccine existed, we were losing 2.6 million human beings every year; that is a body count higher than the entire population of Houston wiped off the planet annually.
This is sensationalized nonsense. In the US, in the decade before the vaccine, we reported between 400-500 deaths per year from Measles. In the early 20th century, 5-6K/yr. This is out of 4M+ cases each yr in the US. It was such an "epidemic", that the Brady Bunch did an episode about it.
"A lot of dots, a low-grade fever, and a great big smile"
Why? Because the kids got to stay home from school. It aired in 1969.