🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@sudoLife

There arent any countries that are refusing to cooperate with getting a vaccine out, and we achieved it before. So this doesnt appear to be an impossibility.

That said I dont know what steps we used in the past, if any, to ensure cooperation.

@GodfreyHendrix @swiley

@NNYLiberty

No not really. Only about 10% of funding for scientific research is from grants.

@joedoudna

@swiley

No offense but earlier in the thread you thought the vaccine was killing people and even thought VARES reported multiple thousands of vaccine deaths... Sorry but you have shown you arent the least bit informed enough to have a clue about how deadly COVID is. It is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu. Almost no one alive today doesnt have a family member or friend who has been killed by it at this point. Yes its absolutely more than deadly enough.

@GodfreyHendrix

@swiley

Smallpox was more deadly.. moot point. COVID is **more** than deadly enough to warrant us to eradicate it if we can, which we can do as we already have done it with other viruses that would require similar effort, full stop.

@GodfreyHendrix

@swiley

You seem to be missing the fact that the percentage that needed to be vaccinated in order to create herd immunity with small pox is about the same as that for covid, so anything else is moot, we know we are capable of reaching the needed herd immunity world wide because we did it before. The only question is if we can vaccinate people fast enough.

@GodfreyHendrix

@GodfreyHendrix

The antivaxers may make fixing this problem impossible. But it is solvable in theory at least. Governments arent exactly doing their part either to get trust.

@swiley

@GodfreyHendrix

Keep in mind we eradicated small pox world wide by doing this. So while I agree it is no easy task, it is potentially doable. The key is, as you say, not to start giving out the vaccine until we have enough of it produced and enough of it distributed to ramp up vaccination much more quickly.

@swiley

@swiley

Our past success with other vaccinations exceeding 80% would prove you wrong. We hit 80% vaccination rate with smallpox and a great many other vaccines in the past.

@GodfreyHendrix

@DavidBond You are looking way way too drowsy to be surrounded by that many pretty women :)

@GodfreyHendrix

Well its not that simple. The vaccine's effectiveness means that even if a person with the vaccine catches it their viral load is much less and the ability to infect others is much less than it would be without the vaccine. So its not really an all or nothing calculation.

That said even if we did assume that the vaccine missed its mark because we didnt vaccinate fast enough to get to herd immunity before a variant was produced that just means we have to repeat the process and be quicker. Get everyone vaccinated and herd immunity for the first virus, then produce a new vaccine that targets the vaccine and ensure we vaccinate much quicker and get the herd immunity this time around and not take a year to vaccinate everyone.

So either way you look at it, the solution would come from vaccinating quickly and with near 100% coverage.

@swiley

@SirDaddyO@noagendasocial.com

Hahahaha, sure you do buddy, sure you do.

@joedoudna

@SirDaddyO@noagendasocial.com

Anyone who thinks this nonsense is completely disconnected from the community. Just some fantasy you tell yourself so you feel better being clueless about anything science.

@joedoudna

@joedoudna LOL the vast majority of scientists in the research field could easily be paid 3x or more what they get paid if they worked for commercial entities. Most are more than willing to take that 1/3rd pay cut just to do research because they feel they are doing more good.

Thats the main reason this argument generally comes across as so laughable to anyone who has ever worked in academic research.

@steve

Not so directly no. If you are on a particular server, and if that server has the feature (most dont) you can do that as a local-only post where basically only users from the local server can see it. But otherwise it looks like a regular post in the timeline, not a direct message or anything.

@evanb @mcduquesne

""Le But Ultime De L'Humanitéle est la savoir" - "The Ultimate Purpose Of Mankind is Knowledge"

-- French inscription above the doorway in the Library from "The Magicians"

#TheMagicians #Magicians #French #Quote

@mur2501

Maybe, I was thinking something similar, some sort of trapped gases.

@stux

@tomtom

True, though at least in that case the difficulty and thus number of blocks mined adjusts based on the number of transactions.

Also for the record most of the cryptocoins overtaking the space are energy efficient.

@yarmo