Taking down the plague

[dorchadas]

A couple days late to this news, obviously, but we have a coronavirus vaccine and it works.

Back in April I was very skeptical that this would happen, I think for good reason. The fastest previous vaccine had taken years. Less than ten percent of vaccines under development ever make it through trials and are approved. Yet here we are, with not just one vaccine but multiple vaccines. That's even better, because there's greater odds that if someone can't take any particular vaccine due to health concerns, one of the other vaccines might work for them.

They put music over footage of the first shipment of vaccine being wheeled into a hospital:

This works quite nicely. pic.twitter.com/KsGzWkm4Cl

— Matthew Podszus (@matthew_podszus) December 15, 2020

The top tweet is here, with the NBA on ESPN theme, though there are quite a few examples in the thread.

Given what we knew in April, I still think I was right to be skeptical then, but I'm glad I was wrong. We still have some months of restrictions in play as the vaccine is rolled out and we try to figure out how likely people who've been vaccinated are to spread the plague even if they aren't affected by it--latest results are very promising--but the end is in sight, and much sooner than a lot of people (and me) expected.

Comments

[helvetica]

Eee I'm so excited too! Cautiously because I know it will still take time but hopefully this means that things will be almost normal when your lil baby joins the world so they can meet everyone!

[law]

i was skeptical too so you're not alone. i'm just glad that there's some hope in this situation now so that we all won't have to worry about this for much longer.

[symbioid]

Same, re: relieved to be wrong.

Still worried that the people who need to take it won't because I feel like the same Anti-Maskers are gonna end up turning Anti-Vaxxers at this rate.

I can't remember where I read it (maybe you?) who posited maybe we just need to make 2 "tribes" of vaccines. A "Trump" vax and a "Non-Trump"/Biden Vax. So Biden can promote one, and Trump can get his horde of fools to take his. Maybe it'll be like Trump Steaks. LOL.

But yeah - that's my biggest concern is making sure these people take the meds. At least that enough of them will.

Still I was NOT expecting anything this year, and probably not til the 2nd half of next year. I just hope the results are good, and we don't run into any mutations that can overcome this (I have a better feeling about Moderna than the Pfizer, but I'll take whatever I can get).

[dorchadas]

That last bit is part of the reason for more hope for me--even if there's some kind of major mutation, having a bunch of vaccine candidates means that hopefully one of them will still be effective against it.