Over the Christmas holiday, Donald Trump delivered lumps of coal into his anti-vaccine supporters’ stockings by proudly announcing that he received his booster shot of the COVID vaccine. (yeah, I know, I’m sorry, I’ll show myself out) Watch the full clip below, where Trump not only shushed his detractors but also encouraged the crowd to “not let them take this from us”, meaning the success of Operation Warp Speed.
>>Operation Warp Speed pulled off an impossible feat in bringing a COVID vaccine to market in nine months.<<
Not just that (and this wasn't actually his doing), but a wholly unproven-at-scale technology (mRNA) basically came in and kicked the asses of every other existing vaccine platform in terms of ramping up and inoculating the masses. Sure, J&J actually got doses out the door, likewise AstraZenica, and Russian Sputnik. But all those to some degree were counting on Indian manufacturing prowess (via the Serum Institute) that got summarily slammed shut the moment India had a flareup. Moderna had never had an at-scale product before. Pfizer had never made an mRNA product in those quantities.
We're witnessing a scientific and technological miracle.
He got booed a several months back when he told a crowd in Alabama that they should get the jab. A lot of people are too invested in being anti-vax. Same for the pro-mask crowd.
>>[He did even more damage to himself by coming out as pro-vaccination now instead of staying relatively quiet as he had done previously.<<
I sort of agree with this, but to the limit that the press had negative incentive to amplify anything he had to say about the vaccines once he was out of office. And he had been booted from social media, so he couldn't go that route.
Was he ever not in the pro-vax? Operation warp speed, the 3 American vaccines all have his rubber stamp on them. You can’t extract trumps fingerprints from the vaccines.
>>Operation Warp Speed pulled off an impossible feat in bringing a COVID vaccine to market in nine months.<<
Not just that (and this wasn't actually his doing), but a wholly unproven-at-scale technology (mRNA) basically came in and kicked the asses of every other existing vaccine platform in terms of ramping up and inoculating the masses. Sure, J&J actually got doses out the door, likewise AstraZenica, and Russian Sputnik. But all those to some degree were counting on Indian manufacturing prowess (via the Serum Institute) that got summarily slammed shut the moment India had a flareup. Moderna had never had an at-scale product before. Pfizer had never made an mRNA product in those quantities.
We're witnessing a scientific and technological miracle.
He got booed a several months back when he told a crowd in Alabama that they should get the jab. A lot of people are too invested in being anti-vax. Same for the pro-mask crowd.
Also:
>>[He did even more damage to himself by coming out as pro-vaccination now instead of staying relatively quiet as he had done previously.<<
I sort of agree with this, but to the limit that the press had negative incentive to amplify anything he had to say about the vaccines once he was out of office. And he had been booted from social media, so he couldn't go that route.
Was he ever not in the pro-vax? Operation warp speed, the 3 American vaccines all have his rubber stamp on them. You can’t extract trumps fingerprints from the vaccines.