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> You need BSL3 facilities if you want to have a hundred people have it. But the alternative is 27 million people getting it in planes, boats, and buses - none
by throwaway2245 6y ago
> You need BSL3 facilities if you want to have a hundred people have it. But the alternative is 27 million people getting it in planes, boats, and buses - none of which are BSL3.
Those things are not true alternatives.
I said "it's not going to get your vaccine approved any quicker" in the hope that you would understand: vaccines have reached the point of global distribution without doing the additional deliberate harm of intentionally infecting people.
- renewiltord 6y agoWell, we've taken your approach and killed 300k in the process, so I guess we could play at being tankies in the '90s and say "If only the Communism were properly done" or we could revisit the approach. Of course I am healthy, my family has had the vaccine or the disease and punched through, so I don't really care all that much.
- travismark 6y agoFDA still hasn't authorized the AZ vaccine
- dmurray 6y agoOther countries have, though, and they don't have millions of doses waiting for approval or factories waiting to spin up production. The bottleneck has generally been manufacturing rather than approval so far. It may shift to distribution.