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Here's a pretty good thread from a professor arguing that the Alabama story is very likely made up: https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1278703871053963269 ht

Here's a pretty good thread from a professor arguing that the Alabama story is very likely made up: https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1278703871053963269 https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1278703871053963269 But I totally agree that the entire premise of colleges trying to function as an on-campus institution is absolutely absurd until there's a vaccine.

djsumdog 6y ago
> until there's a vaccine Why do people think we're getting some magic vaccine? Gavi/Gates have pushed this "18 months" bullshit, where they're developing some magical vaccine for a family of viruses that's never had a vaccine before, and every previous attempt has been met with either bad immunopathic responses or immune enhancement syndrome[0]. Vaccines takes decades to develop safely, and the techniques being proposed now have never led to a vaccine that made it through clinical trials before. There is no vaccine coming in any reasonable amount of time. The 100+ companies are take a lot of WHO/government money, and who knows if they'll actually produce anything. Safe vaccines for new families of viruses take a decade. There is still no vaccine for retroviruses (herpes, HIV, etc.) It's straight up Gates pipe dream to think a safe vaccine for this can be made in a year. [0]: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-honor/#vacinations-should-not-be-made-in-a-year https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...