A Vaccine

August 30, 2020 Longrider General News, Health and Fitness, misanthropy, Political 10

So, they are in a rush to get a vaccine out for Covid-19.

The government plans to train up an army of health professionals to be ready to give the coronavirus vaccine, if and when one is shown to work.

This could include pharmacists, who already deliver flu vaccines, midwives and physiotherapists.

The proposals come amid fears that, if a safe and effective vaccine became available now, there wouldn’t be enough people to administer it.

But a vaccine is not expected to be ready before Christmas.

Although the chances of having a vaccine this year are considered to be small, preparations are being made so that if one is ready, it can be given to a large number of people very quickly.

I don’t have the annual flu jab for the simple reason that I do not consider myself high risk and that it only around 40% effective anyway. For some pathogens, a vaccine is a useful tool in the arsenal, however for an RNA virus that mutates by the time the vaccine is ready, it’s all a bit pointless. Although the government and the credulous seem to believe that it is some sort of golden bullet. But, then, these people think that wearing a bit of cloth on your face will stop it so they will believe any old scientifically illiterate bollocks.

The other thing that bothers me is the rush. What shortcuts will be taken in order to get this vaccine out in the field? I’m a bit fussy about what I put into my body.

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10 Comments

  1. I’ll probably take the risk of side effects and play their (Australian government) game if it is the only way of freeing me travel to the UK. The Australian government has, bizarrely, been limiting citizens and permanent residents from leaving the country, with only one in four getting permission. Rushing to the bedside of your dying parent is not a good enough reason, nor is wanting to see the birth of your child, but being a member of a touring national cricket team is.

  2. I’d take the Russian Vaccine.

    Since the U.S. is sanctioning the labs that developed it, that’s a sure fire sign that it works.

    Being diabetic, having had my lungs punctured in a motorcycle incident which also caused two cardiac arrests I’m one of those very vunerable to the Covid 19 virus.

    Fortunately in France, whilst our Emporer is a clueless fart when it comes to domestic policy, he seems more aware as to foreign policy.

    E.G. It’s dumb to be hostile toward Russia.

    • Bit like the rush to get your windmills and solar panels up.
      Quick before either the money runs out, or it is realised that the whole thing is a dreadful mistake (diplomatic way of saying scam), or the problem just goes away.

  3. The government plans to train up an army of health professionals to be ready to give the coronavirus vaccine

    Alternativly they could give the pre-filled syringes (like Flu vaccine) to people and say DIY – intra-muscular injection like Flu vaccine is easy, no training required

    Diabetics and others do it every day. Druggies manage to do intra-venous

    O/T Funny Video Of The Week
    https://youtu.be/foyt4Pu-aAY?t=31

    I’d love to know what Husky dog saying

  4. Think I’ll let the mask zealots be used as Guinea Pigs and take a look at the side effects after a few years, thanks.

  5. I will not be taking the coronavirus vaccine. This is not because I’m an anti-vaxxer, far from it, as a parent I’m acutely aware that my child lives a healthy life in part because he has been vaccinated against all the nasties that used to carry off children in my grandparents and great-grandparents generation. He does not have to live in fear of polio or diptheria or smallpox or whooping cough or the myriad of other preventable diseases. But part of the reason I’m not an anti vaxxer is because I understand and have confidence in the stringent controls that vaccines have to go through before they are released to the public. Vaccines have to go through significantly greater levels of study than novel medications have to go through because vaccines, unlike medications, are given to healthy people. I see no such stringency being applied when it comes to the coronavirus vaccine, it’s being rushed through with unseemly haste and that worries me greatly.

  6. The vaccine won’t work except maybe in about 5% of cases. SARS-covid-2 is an RNA virus. Upon infection, the RNA is converted to DNA. This is replicated. Upon the creation of new virus capsids the DNA is transcribed back into RNA and this is then packaged. So there are two rounds of transcription, into DNA then back to RNA. Tis can cause misreading, mistranscription and thus a mutation or series of mutations. This may lead to inactive virus particles or virus particles with a different immunogenicity. So the vaccine may protect against the original strain but not the mutated version. Just like the influenza vaccine protects against last year’s strain but not the current one (yes, ‘flu virus is also an RNA virus). So all this salivating over a vaccine is I am afraid, nonsensical. The virus will always be one step ahead of the vaccine.

    • The vaccine will work for me if it gets me out of Australia, protection against COVID-19 would be a bonus.

  7. Pcar,
    That really was funny, but I couldn’t figure out of if “F*cking hell” was the first line or he’d gone straight into the chorus.
    Very brave bloke for still putting the video up for viewing. Howeverl, he must be glad he wasn’t playing the bagpipes!

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