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Pfeiser Vaccine had little to do with Trump's Operation Warp Speed
In response to: Pfizer has clarified that it was never part of Operation Warp Speed, despite attempts by Trump and Pence to take credit for its promising vaccine
When Pfizer announced yesterday that early results from large-scale clinical trials showed its coronavirus vaccine could be more than 90 percent effective, the entire world felt a little more optimistic. The novel coronavirus has sickened more than 50 million people globally, and killed over a million — nearly 240,000 in the U.S. alone. Now, this should come as a surprise to no one, but Donald Trump and Mike Pence pretty immediately jumped on that good news, and tried to claim credit for the vaccine by implying it was part of Operation Warp Speed, the government initiative that’s funneled federal funding to pharmaceutical companies to help them speed their vaccine development timelines.
Now, though, Pfizer execs are clarifying: Their company has never taken federal money (or any other outside funding) to help with its vaccine development, as part of Operation Warp Speed or any other program.
Following the initial news announcement from Pfizer, Vice President Pence tweeted that it was “HUGE NEWS” and “thanks to the public-private partnership forged by .”
Trump also went on a Twitter tirade, claiming that he was the reason the Pfizer vaccine was developed so quickly, and under another president, it would have taken years longer.
When Pfizer announced yesterday that early results from large-scale clinical trials showed its coronavirus vaccine could be more than 90 percent effective, the entire world felt a little more optimistic. The novel coronavirus has sickened more than 50 million people globally, and killed over a million — nearly 240,000 in the U.S. alone. Now, this should come as a surprise to no one, but Donald Trump and Mike Pence pretty immediately jumped on that good news, and tried to claim credit for the vaccine by implying it was part of Operation Warp Speed, the government initiative that’s funneled federal funding to pharmaceutical companies to help them speed their vaccine development timelines.
Now, though, Pfizer execs are clarifying: Their company has never taken federal money (or any other outside funding) to help with its vaccine development, as part of Operation Warp Speed or any other program.
Following the initial news announcement from Pfizer, Vice President Pence tweeted that it was “HUGE NEWS” and “thanks to the public-private partnership forged by .”
Trump also went on a Twitter tirade, claiming that he was the reason the Pfizer vaccine was developed so quickly, and under another president, it would have taken years longer.
In response to: While Operation Warp Speed provided research and development money to several pharmaceutical firms, including Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and AstraZeneca, Pfizer accepted government funds to supply and distribute their shot, not develop it.
“Pfizer is collaborating with BioNTech, a German biotechnology company, to develop COVID-19 investigational vaccines without US government financial support,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a July 22 statement.
The Department at that time announced an agreement with Pfizer “for large-scale production and nationwide delivery” of a Covid-19 vaccine in the US following “successful manufacture and approval,” as part of the Warp Speed goal of quickly getting a safe vaccine to the American public.
Pfizer and BioNTech agreed to supply up to 600 million doses of their vaccine as part of the program.
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The confusion over the company’s participation in Warp Speed likely stemmed from Pfizer senior vice president Kathrin Jansen’s misleading statement quoted in The New York Times: “We were never part of the Warp Speed,” she said. “We have never taken any money from the US government, or from anyone.”
Another spokesperson later clarified, as did the Times, that the company is involved in Operation Warp Speed “as a supplier of a potential coronavirus vaccine.”
“Pfizer is collaborating with BioNTech, a German biotechnology company, to develop COVID-19 investigational vaccines without US government financial support,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a July 22 statement.
The Department at that time announced an agreement with Pfizer “for large-scale production and nationwide delivery” of a Covid-19 vaccine in the US following “successful manufacture and approval,” as part of the Warp Speed goal of quickly getting a safe vaccine to the American public.
Pfizer and BioNTech agreed to supply up to 600 million doses of their vaccine as part of the program.
...
The confusion over the company’s participation in Warp Speed likely stemmed from Pfizer senior vice president Kathrin Jansen’s misleading statement quoted in The New York Times: “We were never part of the Warp Speed,” she said. “We have never taken any money from the US government, or from anyone.”
Another spokesperson later clarified, as did the Times, that the company is involved in Operation Warp Speed “as a supplier of a potential coronavirus vaccine.”
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Falling iguanas' forecast in Miami weather report
A weather forecast for the Christmas period in Miami has predicted cold temperatures in the next few days - with a sprinkle of falling iguanas.
Still better than snow and ice I guess
Still better than snow and ice I guess
Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine now approved for emergency usage (as Pfizer's was).
This vaccine is also RNA based and 2 shots maximize the effectiveness.
It's slightly less effective (94.1 %) versus the Pfizer one (95%).
However, the major advantage of this one, is that it doesn't need to be kept in liquid nitrogen or other deep freeze equipment.
An ordinary freezer is adequate. This allows much broader usage and transportation to pharmacies,
and other facilities, which do not have liquid nitrogen or other deep freeze storage apparatus.
Lets get ready to.... be vaccinated !
P.S. Here's what a vaccine will really do to you...... help you become immune to a virus.
It's slightly less effective (94.1 %) versus the Pfizer one (95%).
However, the major advantage of this one, is that it doesn't need to be kept in liquid nitrogen or other deep freeze equipment.
An ordinary freezer is adequate. This allows much broader usage and transportation to pharmacies,
and other facilities, which do not have liquid nitrogen or other deep freeze storage apparatus.
Lets get ready to.... be vaccinated !
P.S. Here's what a vaccine will really do to you...... help you become immune to a virus.
The consequences of not finishing the border wall and a president soft on illegal immigation.
Even Mexico think Biden is creating a magnet.
Snippet:
"OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 7:33 AM PT – Thursday, December 17, 2020
The Mexican foreign minister said if Joe Biden were to win the election, this would lead to an increase in illegal cross-border immigration.
On Tuesday, Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico does not support Biden’s open borders immigration policies, asserting they would not solve the problem and would actually encourage migrants to make the perilous journey through Mexico to the U.S. border.
In recent weeks, a caravan of migrants have begun the journey from Honduras. They are justifying their decision to come to the U.S. by citing pandemic economic effects combined with destruction from hurricanes, which battered South American countries last month.
Jose Gonzalez, a coordinator with a Guatemalan Christian organization that works with migrants, said he expects the number of these caravans would multiply if Biden were to win the presidency as changes in government in the U.S. encourage migrants to test the waters of possibly shifting immigration policies. He said he expects the current caravan to get larger as it travels through more countries."
Snippet:
"OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 7:33 AM PT – Thursday, December 17, 2020
The Mexican foreign minister said if Joe Biden were to win the election, this would lead to an increase in illegal cross-border immigration.
On Tuesday, Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico does not support Biden’s open borders immigration policies, asserting they would not solve the problem and would actually encourage migrants to make the perilous journey through Mexico to the U.S. border.
In recent weeks, a caravan of migrants have begun the journey from Honduras. They are justifying their decision to come to the U.S. by citing pandemic economic effects combined with destruction from hurricanes, which battered South American countries last month.
Jose Gonzalez, a coordinator with a Guatemalan Christian organization that works with migrants, said he expects the number of these caravans would multiply if Biden were to win the presidency as changes in government in the U.S. encourage migrants to test the waters of possibly shifting immigration policies. He said he expects the current caravan to get larger as it travels through more countries."
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Oh no, more quivers....
and more arrows......As brilliant and stud-like young men, many of us were attracted to tools of the martial arts. Numb nuts with num chucks, all. I recall those awesome looking three sharp pronged hunting arrows, sharp enough to shave the adolescent facial fuzz with. Cool.
Hit sweet Bambi just aft of the mid posterior border of the scapula, and near instant demise, with little pain. Then thankful prayers to the Great Spirit and her sacrificial deer, and winter meat for all. But I digress.
Nevada---only one of the six big evidence States, VERY big, all with strong and ever growing support for a stolen erection.
Along with the forenSICK Cyber evidence,--- paper and other counts show things of interest to former Special Prosecutor Ken Starr, and Senator Ran Paul, along with a growing number of GOP pols and even a few of those from the Dark Side. Yesterday at the Home Security/Public Affairs Committee. On Capital Hill. Over a thousand dead voters, 4,000 similar illegals doing so, and over 40,000 repeat voters, just for starters. And just in Nevada.
Plenty of Committee floor anger. Lots of irrefutable evidence. But the usual silence from the biased media, not least the former Journalism driven WSJ.
Rep. Swalwell's dalliances with the Red Chinese NOT hottie spy Finger Fanny, as a member of that other committee on state security, is a cautionary tale, for all of those media pundits and Dem pols in the pockets of the PRC. As always, follow the money.
And now we hear the repeated cries of Russian dis-info. Pulleeze! As with the Fake Hilary bought Steele Dossier, and now discredited rest of it all. All four long years of prior real attempts at stealing a previous election.
But wait. Now we have reports of CJ Roberts being overheard by staffers, yelling---'But we'll
have BLM and antifa burning our cities.' To which the patriot heroes on the SCOTUS calmly reply---'didn't happen after Bush v. Gore in 2000, John, did it?'.
Don't take the fat little illiterate Vierk gnomoid Runt twit toad's words for it. Just google it.
Along with John Radcliff's, National Security Advisor's on air report to CBS news and that hottie Fox, Maria Bartolomo.--- herself on Fox. Hubba, hubba. Ooochie mama
Of over a dozen other security agencies now also in agreement on an election, stolen by foreign in- fluences, with the PRC leading the charge.
Finally, view the montage of Dems claiming that Dumbminion machines were NOT connected to the internet, as Cris Crebs did when on biased media, while not under oath. In Committee, where things were a bit different, he admitted that some machines WERE connected to IT.
Off with their heads. Au Front, les Citoyen!
Hit sweet Bambi just aft of the mid posterior border of the scapula, and near instant demise, with little pain. Then thankful prayers to the Great Spirit and her sacrificial deer, and winter meat for all. But I digress.
Nevada---only one of the six big evidence States, VERY big, all with strong and ever growing support for a stolen erection.
Along with the forenSICK Cyber evidence,--- paper and other counts show things of interest to former Special Prosecutor Ken Starr, and Senator Ran Paul, along with a growing number of GOP pols and even a few of those from the Dark Side. Yesterday at the Home Security/Public Affairs Committee. On Capital Hill. Over a thousand dead voters, 4,000 similar illegals doing so, and over 40,000 repeat voters, just for starters. And just in Nevada.
Plenty of Committee floor anger. Lots of irrefutable evidence. But the usual silence from the biased media, not least the former Journalism driven WSJ.
Rep. Swalwell's dalliances with the Red Chinese NOT hottie spy Finger Fanny, as a member of that other committee on state security, is a cautionary tale, for all of those media pundits and Dem pols in the pockets of the PRC. As always, follow the money.
And now we hear the repeated cries of Russian dis-info. Pulleeze! As with the Fake Hilary bought Steele Dossier, and now discredited rest of it all. All four long years of prior real attempts at stealing a previous election.
But wait. Now we have reports of CJ Roberts being overheard by staffers, yelling---'But we'll
have BLM and antifa burning our cities.' To which the patriot heroes on the SCOTUS calmly reply---'didn't happen after Bush v. Gore in 2000, John, did it?'.
Don't take the fat little illiterate Vierk gnomoid Runt twit toad's words for it. Just google it.
Along with John Radcliff's, National Security Advisor's on air report to CBS news and that hottie Fox, Maria Bartolomo.--- herself on Fox. Hubba, hubba. Ooochie mama
Of over a dozen other security agencies now also in agreement on an election, stolen by foreign in- fluences, with the PRC leading the charge.
Finally, view the montage of Dems claiming that Dumbminion machines were NOT connected to the internet, as Cris Crebs did when on biased media, while not under oath. In Committee, where things were a bit different, he admitted that some machines WERE connected to IT.
Off with their heads. Au Front, les Citoyen!
When a woman loves a man...
When she says margarita she means daiquiri.
When she says quixotic she means mercurial.
And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"
she means, "Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window."
He's supposed to know that.
When a man loves a woman he is in New York and she is in Virginia
or he is in Boston, writing, and she is in New York, reading,
or she is wearing a sweater and sunglasses in Balboa Park and he is raking leaves in Ithaca
or he is driving to East Hampton and she is standing disconsolate at the window overlooking the bay
where a regatta of many-colored sails is going on
while he is stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway.
When a woman loves a man it is one ten in the morning
she is asleep he is watching the ball scores and eating pretzels
drinking lemonade
and two hours later he wakes up and staggers into bed
where she remains asleep and very warm.
When she says tomorrow she means in three or four weeks.
When she says, "We're talking about me now,"
he stops talking. Her best friend comes over and says,
"Did somebody die?"
When a woman loves a man, they have gone
to swim naked in the stream
on a glorious July day
with the sound of the waterfall like a chuckle
of water rushing over smooth rocks,
and there is nothing alien in the universe.
Ripe apples fall about them.
What else can they do but eat?
When he says, "Ours is a transitional era,"
"that's very original of you," she replies,
dry as the martini he is sipping.
They fight all the time
It's fun
What do I owe you?
Let's start with an apology
Ok, I'm sorry, you dickhead.
A sign is held up saying "Laughter."
It's a silent picture.
"I've been f*cked without a kiss," she says,
"and you can quote me on that,"
which sounds great in an English accent.
One year they broke up seven times and threatened to do it another nine times.
When a woman loves a man, she wants him to meet her at the airport in a foreign country with a jeep.
When a man loves a woman he's there. He doesn't complain that she's two hours late
and there's nothing in the refrigerator.
When a woman loves a man, she wants to stay awake.
She's like a child crying
at nightfall because she didn't want the day to end.
When a man loves a woman, he watches her sleep, thinking:
as midnight to the moon is sleep to the beloved.
A thousand fireflies wink at him.
The frogs sound like the string section
of the orchestra warming up.
The stars dangle down like earrings the shape of grapes.
When a Woman Loves a Man
David Lehman
When she says quixotic she means mercurial.
And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"
she means, "Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window."
He's supposed to know that.
When a man loves a woman he is in New York and she is in Virginia
or he is in Boston, writing, and she is in New York, reading,
or she is wearing a sweater and sunglasses in Balboa Park and he is raking leaves in Ithaca
or he is driving to East Hampton and she is standing disconsolate at the window overlooking the bay
where a regatta of many-colored sails is going on
while he is stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway.
When a woman loves a man it is one ten in the morning
she is asleep he is watching the ball scores and eating pretzels
drinking lemonade
and two hours later he wakes up and staggers into bed
where she remains asleep and very warm.
When she says tomorrow she means in three or four weeks.
When she says, "We're talking about me now,"
he stops talking. Her best friend comes over and says,
"Did somebody die?"
When a woman loves a man, they have gone
to swim naked in the stream
on a glorious July day
with the sound of the waterfall like a chuckle
of water rushing over smooth rocks,
and there is nothing alien in the universe.
Ripe apples fall about them.
What else can they do but eat?
When he says, "Ours is a transitional era,"
"that's very original of you," she replies,
dry as the martini he is sipping.
They fight all the time
It's fun
What do I owe you?
Let's start with an apology
Ok, I'm sorry, you dickhead.
A sign is held up saying "Laughter."
It's a silent picture.
"I've been f*cked without a kiss," she says,
"and you can quote me on that,"
which sounds great in an English accent.
One year they broke up seven times and threatened to do it another nine times.
When a woman loves a man, she wants him to meet her at the airport in a foreign country with a jeep.
When a man loves a woman he's there. He doesn't complain that she's two hours late
and there's nothing in the refrigerator.
When a woman loves a man, she wants to stay awake.
She's like a child crying
at nightfall because she didn't want the day to end.
When a man loves a woman, he watches her sleep, thinking:
as midnight to the moon is sleep to the beloved.
A thousand fireflies wink at him.
The frogs sound like the string section
of the orchestra warming up.
The stars dangle down like earrings the shape of grapes.
When a Woman Loves a Man
David Lehman
Need Nam to verify this. Anybody heard from him?
Could just be someone trying to scam money, but it wouldn't take many truckers to jam up the gears. People are pissed. 
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Squattergate: The King of nicknames got a nickname...
After learning that Trump has raised $170 million since the election, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has a nickname for the president: Uncle Scam
The story ran in The New York Times and stated much of the money was raised within a week after the election for Trump who has peddled baseless claims about election fraud in an effort to undermine public trust in the results..
What a scam. We already discussed the longer Trump holds out the better off he is financially. Apparently, those who are giving donations either didn't read the fine print or don't care how the fundraising money gets used.
Squattergate, day 29.
The story ran in The New York Times and stated much of the money was raised within a week after the election for Trump who has peddled baseless claims about election fraud in an effort to undermine public trust in the results..
What a scam. We already discussed the longer Trump holds out the better off he is financially. Apparently, those who are giving donations either didn't read the fine print or don't care how the fundraising money gets used.
Squattergate, day 29.
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She didn't follow the safety protocols...
A female volunteer who feeds big cats at Carole Baskin's Big Cat Rescue in Tampa Florida was bitten and seriously injured Thursday morning. The 69 year old volunteer was feeding a 3-year old male tiger when she noticed the animal was not in his usual location (first mistake) and the gate had been clipped shut. She reached in to unclip it (second mistake) when the tiger grabbed her arm and nearly tore it off at the shoulder.
Baskin, who is the founder and CEO of the Rescue made a statement:
“This is our universal signal NOT to open a gate without assistance. It is against our protocols for anyone to stick any part of their body into a cage with a cat in it.”
The volunteer was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. Bleeding and her arm broken in 3 places. Surgery was scheduled later in the day.
It's a terrible thing to have happened and the volunteer is very lucky to be alive as she could have been mauled in the blink of an eye.
Baskin, who is the founder and CEO of the Rescue made a statement:
“This is our universal signal NOT to open a gate without assistance. It is against our protocols for anyone to stick any part of their body into a cage with a cat in it.”
The volunteer was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. Bleeding and her arm broken in 3 places. Surgery was scheduled later in the day.
It's a terrible thing to have happened and the volunteer is very lucky to be alive as she could have been mauled in the blink of an eye.
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