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It sure would have been nice if there was a quality intranasal vaccine that the government could have shipped to each household instead of the insane goose chas

It sure would have been nice if there was a quality intranasal vaccine that the government could have shipped to each household instead of the insane goose chase that was trying to get vaccine appointments.

badgersnake 2y ago
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- moduspol 2y ago
  Some would, but it definitely is a bigger ask of people to have something injected into their bloodstream by a medical professional rather than to just spray something in their nose. I think it'd win over a substantial chunk of the vaccine-hesitant.
  - logicchains 2y ago
    Have you spoken to any vaccine-hesitant? Almost none of them are vaccine-hesitant because they don't like the idea of a needle in their arm; a nasal delivery method would have almost no measurable effect on voluntary uptake.
    - jeffhuys 2y ago
      It IS a more traditional vaccine, though, and less scary because of that. And this is not being pushed to the fullest extent of the law (and a bit above it I think, but nobody can really prove that).
    - moduspol 2y ago
      I don't think they'd say it's because they don't like the idea of a needle in their arm, but for a lot of them, I think it's a significant contributing factor.
    - badgersnake 2y ago
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    - sneak 2y ago
      Many people are scared of needles and won’t willingly opt for them. It doesn’t require being an antivaxxer.
- amelius 2y ago
  Maybe the government should have just sprayed this around in crowded places like subway stations and shopping malls and such :)
shiroiushi 2y ago
That's almost exactly what happened with the MEV-1 pandemic of 2011.
- Scoundreller 2y ago
  I suspect the excessive emphasis on fomite transmission of covid-19 was caused by too many decision-makers (re-)watching Contagion as their “Idiot’s Guide To Handling a Pandemic”.
empath75 2y ago
You wanted them to wait until they manufactured enough to send to everyone at once?
- Scoundreller 2y ago
  There’s some theory that this would have been the best approach so everyone has a lot of immunity all at once and the virus dies out (barring some other non-human reservoirs). It’s possible an entire population with varying immunity allowed there to always be some reservoir out there. But good luck immunizing everyone, especially at the same time.

badgersnake 2y ago

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moduspol 2y ago
Some would, but it definitely is a bigger ask of people to have something injected into their bloodstream by a medical professional rather than to just spray something in their nose. I think it'd win over a substantial chunk of the vaccine-hesitant.
- logicchains 2y ago
  Have you spoken to any vaccine-hesitant? Almost none of them are vaccine-hesitant because they don't like the idea of a needle in their arm; a nasal delivery method would have almost no measurable effect on voluntary uptake.
  - jeffhuys 2y ago
    It IS a more traditional vaccine, though, and less scary because of that. And this is not being pushed to the fullest extent of the law (and a bit above it I think, but nobody can really prove that).
  - moduspol 2y ago
    I don't think they'd say it's because they don't like the idea of a needle in their arm, but for a lot of them, I think it's a significant contributing factor.
  - badgersnake 2y ago
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  - sneak 2y ago
    Many people are scared of needles and won’t willingly opt for them. It doesn’t require being an antivaxxer.
amelius 2y ago
Maybe the government should have just sprayed this around in crowded places like subway stations and shopping malls and such :)

shiroiushi 2y ago

That's almost exactly what happened with the MEV-1 pandemic of 2011.

Scoundreller 2y ago
I suspect the excessive emphasis on fomite transmission of covid-19 was caused by too many decision-makers (re-)watching Contagion as their “Idiot’s Guide To Handling a Pandemic”.

empath75 2y ago

You wanted them to wait until they manufactured enough to send to everyone at once?

Scoundreller 2y ago
There’s some theory that this would have been the best approach so everyone has a lot of immunity all at once and the virus dies out (barring some other non-human reservoirs). It’s possible an entire population with varying immunity allowed there to always be some reservoir out there. But good luck immunizing everyone, especially at the same time.