Coronavirus (political)

[BaltimoreSkins]

By all accounts the UK is rushing through without vetting the research. Pfizer is not just an AMERICAN MADE vaccine but also a joint effort with Germany. I do wish FDA would move faster like the European model but this is what you get with the small government, lack of oversight approach we embrace in the U.S. Other developed country democracies have figured out how to govern their citizens effectively maybe one day we will too.

[SolidSnake84]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

By all accounts the UK is rushing through without vetting the research. Pfizer is not just an AMERICAN MADE vaccine but also a joint effort with Germany. I do wish FDA would move faster like the European model but this is what you get with the small government, lack of oversight approach we embrace in the U.S. Other developed country democracies have figured out how to govern their citizens effectively maybe one day we will too.

Yeah, i do agree with everything you said. But i'm not holding my breath that the FDA approves either of these shots this month. Hell we may not even get a vaccine at all. At the current case load around 250K cases a day, you have to figure at least that many people are getting sick every day and not getting officially diagnosed. So in all actuality the USA is probably seeing a true number of 400 - 500K a day. At that speed, we are doing over 12 million cases a month. At that level of spread, the USA will reach heard immunity in around a year. So, one way or the other, the pandemic is winding down because we will probably see the daily infection rate drop within 6 months as we get closer and closer to building herd immunity.