The making it political part is what I meant. I wonder if it would b different if Trump had just flat out encouraged people to wear a mask instead if going by whatever he feels like that day.
Well it hasn't been mandatory in stores but today the Scottish government announced that it will be so that could be about to change. There is a growing divide between the U.K. government’s lockdown exit strategy and the Scottish government’s one.
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Very few folk wearing masks at my local shop, but it is a Waitrose, so who knows if that's a factor! I do worry about Englandshire tomorrow, especially with the pubs being able to open at 6am...
A fascinating article that seems to be leveraging coronavirus headlines for clicks. There is no vaccine and this blood is used in vast quantities elsewhere so it’s not like a coronavirus vaccine is going to producing a behavior that didn’t already exist.Horseshoe crab blood is key to making a COVID-19 vaccine—but the ecosystem may suffer.
Conservationists worry the animals, which are vital food sources for many species along the U.S. East Coast, will decline in number.
It’s insane that’s just now. JUST NOW. IN FUCKING JULY everyone is now saying “hmmmm maybe we should wear masks”
This all could have been mostly prevented but noooooooo we can’t even think about listening to health professionals
What? Clickbait? They are talking about a company that would use it to manufacture the vaccine they are testing to be able to sell it in the US. There is already a ton of concern in the biological sciences community about the toll that the current demands take on horseshoe crabs. If this vaccine did end up being successful, it would create a larger demand and negatively impact the crabs, that's what the article says. I thought it was interesting.
I’m saying that considering how many vaccines are already consumed I don’t think the coronavirus vaccine, if it even happens, is going to be the sudden drain on the supply chain as it were to push it over the edge (although it would accelerate it along with innumerable other things in the works that are not in the headlines currently).
If a single COVID vaccine is successful, it will be manufactured in much larger quantities over a much shorter period of time than all other currently manufactured vaccines. So, I would expect it to create a larger demand on whatever is currently used in vaccine manufacture until the majority of the world/country is vaccinated.
You could be right. I was just thinking about how many millions of children are born every single day and how many vaccines each one is getting in their first 3-5 years of life and supposed that number to be some percentage of the total vaccine ocean that the coronavirus vaccine would just be another river into.
There are a lot sure, but total babies born in the US in one year is about 1% of the population. So trying to vaccinate 70% of the population for COVID in a short amount of time seems like it would be some crazy manufacturing upscaling. Hard to say without knowing how all the numbers fall out though.
