<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 7:20 PM The Avantguardian via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>> </i></span><i>there is a good chance that long lasting herd immunity kicks in before vaccine manufacturers would be able to recoup their investment.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">And there is also a good chance several million Americans would have to die before herd immunity kicks in. I have a prediction, after Trump urges people to forget about the virus and go back to business as usual and then when the number of deaths start to jump back up in the fall Trump will say the death numbers provided by his own health department are fake numbers cooked up by liberal Democrats, Obama, and the deep state. And the Republicans will either believe him or they won't care that he's lying to them just as they have with every other idiotic thing that has come out of his mouth, because that's what you do when you're in a cult. But reality always gets the last laugh. Always.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>before vaccine manufacturers would be able to recoup their investment.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">In the past vaccine's have not been big money makers for drug companies because in most cases if you take one dose you're good for life, but for something like blood pressure medication you have to take a dose every day. So if the free market breaks down and is unable to develop a COVID-19 vaccine then it's time for government to step in with a massive vaccine project of their own on a scale similar to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing. I mean, if the government can't do something like this then what's the point of having a government at all? Yes I know, anarchist would say government has no use, and maybe they have a point, but the next 6 months are critical and would not be a good time for such a radical transition.</font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Is anybody else a little creeped out by the fact that Bill Gates and Johns Hopkins hosted what amounts to a rehearsal of the pandemic called Event 201 just over a year earlier?</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Creeped out? <b>WHAT THE HELL</b>?! Why in the world should anybody be creeped out by practicing the response to a disaster that virtually every epidemiologist in existence knew would happen someday so that we'd get good at it? If the current administration had taken Bill Gates seriously or conducted their own rehearsal in 2017 when they first gained power tens of thousands of Americans who are now dead would be alive today. But instead Trump was caught completely by surprise and the only weapon he knew how to wield against the virus was magical thinking and the hot air coming out of his pie hole.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>On their website they issued a statement that the pandemic was not quite as deadly as the one they practiced for. So yeah I hope the naming of COVID-19 was not an homage to Windows-98.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Bill Gates has saved well over 100 million lives and, although he would never need to say so himself because it's so obviously true, he really is a very stable genius. America picked the wrong billionaire in 2016.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div>