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brooklynite

(94,520 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 07:16 PM Jun 2020

To those who've been pitching "Trump will fast track a vaccine to win in Nov..."

That would require 1) a willingness On his part to acknowledge that COVID is still a problem (which goes counter to everything he’s said for the past three weeks) and 2) the willingness of his prospective voters to take the vaccine.

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keithbvadu2

(36,788 posts)
10. His family, children and grandchildren.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 09:09 PM
Jun 2020

His family, children and grandchildren.

They can show their faith in Big Daddy.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. No way
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 07:20 PM
Jun 2020

According to Fauci's testimony this week, there are so many unknowns about this virus. At best, it will take 2 or 3 years to get a vaccine approved by the FDA. Look how long it took to get polio vaccine. And we still don't have an AIDs vaccine.

C_U_L8R

(45,001 posts)
4. Fast track a vaccine that doesn't exist??
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 07:23 PM
Jun 2020

Ohhhhhh they're just rebranding all that Chloroquine he bought.

Get your Trumpicide™ today !!

Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
5. I'm no anti-vaxxer, but I'm not taking Trump's vaccine.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 07:25 PM
Jun 2020

You all are more than welcome to take it. I'll keep my bow and arrow handy just in case you turn into zombies.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
6. Not a chance, UK are trialing one tonight and said they would have 40m doses by next June 2021
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 07:27 PM
Jun 2020

It takes a long time to culture these things you know, Nov is not going to happen.

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
8. My husband and I stay up on all our vaccines at our VA clinic.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 07:29 PM
Jun 2020

I'll take my chances with Covid-19 for a long time until a vaccine is rigorously tested.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
11. Why presume both honesty and/or rational thought from him?
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 09:31 PM
Jun 2020

You're premise is flawed...he neither needs nor even wants a rational justification for anything he does. Objective cause and effect is at best, a mere convenience to him, at worst a mere inconvenience; both discarded on a whim and replaced by whatever thought-salad is going on in his brain at any given moment.

I'd lay even money he announces a vaccine prior to the election despite its non-existence.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
16. I agree with you. If Trump sees it in his best interests, he will change
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 10:28 PM
Jun 2020

course in a heartbeat, then lie that he never said something.

hatrack

(59,584 posts)
17. Precisely - he'll approve monkey piss if he thinks it'll boost his polling numbers
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 10:34 PM
Jun 2020

Three days later he will have forgotten all about it.

And then, when people start dropping dead from the disastrously toxic monkey piss vaccine, he'll blame "Jaina", or Hillary, or Obama, or "Fake News", and pretend that he never authorized the release of the vaccine.

And then, a few weeks later, when drug cartels start cutting Fentanyl with monkey piss vaccine, he'll call for a taller wall on the Mexican border, but this time with molten lead moats and robot machine guns.

And then, a few weeks later, when caseloads drop to zero, he'll claim that it was his genius science-mind that thought up the monkey piss miracle cure and blame the "do-nothing Dems" and "Sad Nancy" for not sucking up to his big, big brain.

And then he'll go play golf.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
14. Also 3 - manufacturing enough of it for everyone in the country.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 09:56 PM
Jun 2020

Such a feat has never been attempted before, and it would require at least 80% of us to take it to be effective.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
15. The Cambridge University vaccine went into trial in Brazil today.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 10:25 PM
Jun 2020

Unfortunately, he has Nazis that will do the work of trying a vaccine for him. If not Brazil, there is Russia and India, both with Trump loving psychos leading them.

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