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So British American Tobacco apparently has a COVID-19 vaccine that could be ready in the millions of doses per week:
That's pretty exciting to hear. Some optimism.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/01/british-american-tobacco-plant-based-coronavirus-vaccine
Plant-based vaccines are a potential low-cost and rapid alternative production method, but the antigen has yet to be designed and tested. This is the difficult and time consuming part, I guess. Has the FDA ever started licensing plant-based vaccines lately? Plant-based vaccines are classified in the category of genetically modified crops and must follow a special procedure with additional safety measures.
The vaccine will be worse than the disease...
How do you figure?
Something, something, tobacco addiction.
Wait, what? Please explain.
You've heard of anti-vaxxors and the silly shit they believe, right? Conspiracy theory Tobacco industry invents vaccine mandated for everyone writes itself.
Edit: Also, I recently read the tomacco from The Simpsons was eventually grown.
Stocks virus on lab, since 2017
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682217302386
And that supposedly BAT post was dated April 1. Think about that date.
There's dozens of stories about it at many different media institutions. Doesn't look like April fools to me.
I am not an expert on the matter, but as a general interest I have read about plant based vaccines since years. The idea is to genetically modify a plant to grow the antigen, because it appears to be easier and cheaper than the current production metods. The plant may eventually be an edible one, to simplify even further the inoculation, but for now tobacco plant is the choice. This plant is easy to grow and the tobacco industry is funding the research: it could open a new very lucrative side market.
Agreed, and I am all for it. Competition in this market is critical to both ensure speed and keep costs reasonably low.
OMG! LOL
Just recently, Putin quarantined Russia. The remnants of the collapsed Soviet system worked better than the most modern medical system in most countries.
This shows the world map:
In my country, quarantine was introduced on March 16, and recently extended until April 26.
For example, such rules have been introduced.
Enter a penalty if no mask = 34000 uah ~ $ 1200
We also made a temperature check in each store.
You can not be more than 2 people on the street on business.
But time will tell what will happen next. Everything is so random every day.
Seems like Spain, Germany and Italy may be hitting the apex point now or in the last few days. That's really good news. The world needs this thing to be over really soon.
Tobacco saves the day!
Nothing to be scared about, Trump said everything is under control
That would be the ultimate irony, right?
British PM Boris Johnson in ICU.
Wishing him a speedy recovery.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/new-york-city-considers-mass-grave-in-park-for-coronavirus-victims/ar-BB12eCPM
But look at all that Russian land! Isn't that like built in social distancing right from the get go? I kid...
Which countries do people think are under reporting their infections and deaths intentionally?
I don't think "intentionally" would be the only criteria, many countries simply do not have the infrastructure and facility (or even urge) to do testing on an aggressive scale... so they do their best, sit mum and "pray" they get over with minimum damage.
China on the other hand... is for sure lying on numbers... they are more on the "damage control of their repute" as they know the whole world would have guns pointed at them once the situation is a bit contained.
The world will change after this... I hope it inclines to a positive side
People haven't the foggiest idea on China these days ... Considering the incubation period is only up to 14 days, if every and single living soul willingly stays home (food was delivered to front door) for entire 76 days, and no one is exempted from reporting his/her temperature TWICE a day, you will wonder why it took so long to bring active cases to zero. My wife (Canadian) asked me how this is possible, the answer is there is no discipline without sacrifices.
In my Google News feed today, there was a story about a Russian journalist who died March 31 and was writing about it up until she died. Something fishy was going on with how cause of deaths are being reported so it doesn't get counted and doesn't trigger contact investigations.
In my country, it began with the fact that we came here with the EU. The authorities could prohibit all citizens from returning, as in Belarus, for example. If he arrived, then put him in quarantine for a month, ran away from the quarantine, repulsed the kidneys and put him back into quarantine.
In such things, the dictatorship works perfectly, it instantly decides everything as in China, for example.
At the end of 2020, I’m interested to see what the outcome of everything will be.
If we are here to see!
We'll be here, you can count on it.
Mass graves in New York
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-york-using-mass-graves-071321643.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJtp8e24O6KonZluOXeuonKp5VjH3dUFoCwdqmjujbHFVwPdgsMX5g1EZERZAEhj31WHoe-XWbZv2UZIuHflgL0-CYxD9GV8i3zwG0CDejOyVkX6TF_Y3eK6hQB5xCE3gB0HWUe9gnttQFnVLnqO7S5PKpmEWGrxwnJXQPL9_8OI
Corona virus is the real deal. Name one Global Events that can make Google delay Google Play Store Verification. Usually it just take a few hours to publish an apps. Now it take a freaking 1 week.
Also government(s) has been shutting down public places left and right. People lost job left and right. It's the real deal.
I live in a relatively remote city. We don't even have shopping mall. I need to fly to other city to buy my laptop. Yet, we are affected by this Corona virus.
The fear is real, because the threat is very real. 1 infected person person is all it takes.