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Dallas E Weaver's avatar

Your suggestion of using challenge doses for vaccine testing was spot on. That would shorten the vaccine development time-line to about 30 days for approvals and allow mRNA vaccine technology to follow new strains of the virus as quickly as it could mutate.

You hit on the fact that we didn't know that surfaces were irrelevant for transmission and many other factors about this virus, but probably don't know why we didn't find out these facts for a long time: this virus was (and remains) classified as a BSL-3 organism, a classification intended for a very dangerous virus with pandemic potential. This was a correct classification initially, before the virus became endemic and everywhere. However, maintaining this restriction limits all research with viable virus to BSL-3 rated labs. These are fully bunny suit labs just a little bit short of the BSL-4 classification used for Ebola and the super nasty pathogens. The world wide supply of BSL-3 approved facilities is highly restricted, and doing experiments to show that virus on surfaces are inactive or active requires growing the virus and BSL-3 facilities. We could use DNA testing of the surfaces, which was done and showed the existence of viral RNA, but that doesn't tell us whether it is active virus or inactive virus (a big difference -- exposure to enough inactive virus works like a vaccine, as opposed to an active virus which can kill you) .

When the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread everywhere in the wild, it stopped making scientific sense to limit research to BSL-3 labs, when BSL-2 labs are everywhere, including minor universities and biological businesses. Once the organism went international, the risk of a lab release became irrelevant, and there was no rational reason to prevent researchers being able to determine viability under various conditions. Questions, such as "does viable virus go through a surgical type mask on a sneeze", like it does with flu virus, or will a "salt solution sprayed on a mask inactivate the virus", as it apparently does with a flu virus, could be answered in labs all around the world.

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Beemac's avatar

There’s nothing miraculous about the speed of development of the “vaccines”. It’s a red flag that it happened so fast and then the testing was brief and possibly involved fraud. Why was the control group vaccinated after the testing? Why were only healthy under 50 used as test subjects? Why was VAERS reporting ignored when the number of reports for the vaccines were higher than all other vaccines combined over the previous ten years?

Many papers were written about how to handle a pandemic prior to 2020. Masks and quarantining the healthy were NOT recommended or even dismissed.

Papers are coming out showing a higher rate of infection in the vaccinated. Cancer deaths are now above average.

Someone made a monkey’s paw wish.

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