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The question was posed bluntly to the nearly 100,000 members of a Facebook group devoted to ending Pennsylvanias stay-at-home orders, with a user writing, if there was a vaccine for coronavirus would you be likely to take it.
Absolutely not.
No.
Never.
The resoundingly negative answers streamed forth, generating 1,700 comments and providing a window into brewing resistance to a potential coronavirus vaccine that experts say offers the surest path back to normal life.
Some of the same online activists who have clamored to resume economic activity, echoing President Trumps call to liberate their states from sweeping restrictions, are now aligning themselves with a cause on the political fringe preemptively forswearing a vaccine. To further their baseless claims about the dangers of vaccines and to portray the scientific process as reckless, they have seized on the brisk pace promised for the project, which the Trump administration has branded Operation Warp Speed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trumps-promise-of-warp-speed-fuels-anti-vaccine-movement-in-fertile-corners-of-the-web/2020/05/20/c2b3d408-9ab2-11ea-89fd-28fb313d1886_story.html
harumph
(1,900 posts)I'm concerned how Trump is able to corrupt what otherwise would be a normal scientific processes with testing/safety
protocols etc. I'm not at all sure I trust this "warp speed" bullshit - and consequently, I don't think I'm going to be an early adopter. I'd rather trust the Oxford effort at a vaccine than ANY US company pushed by Trump. Hell, I'd fly my family to Europe to get vaccinated
if possible. Really, fuck this guy and whatever he touches.
Chainfire
(17,537 posts)while I stay hunkered down for a few more months. Don't think I don't see all of the TV lawyer advertisements, and they are about drugs that took the time honored turtle approach to approval, without interference from the idiot in chief.
I just wish that we could beam Trump up to a star ship that was flying, at warp speed, to a galaxy far, far away.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)U.S. commits $1.2 billion to production of Oxford coronavirus vaccine
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-oxford-astrazenca-partnering-united-states/
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)Another fringe saying the stimulus bill the Dems are doing has a provision in it where cops will come into your house and force you to take the vaccine.
Look at both sides of this shit..