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   Miffed White Male

   @MiffedWhiteMale

   

   3:47 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 19, 2021

   Arnold Falk (View Comment):

   Regarding David Adler’s Inside Operation Warp Speed…

   Mr. Adler’s piece is compelling, but is missing a key issue about returning manufacturing to the USA.

   To anyone like me who grew up in the USA during the late 1940s to mid-1960s, this is obvious: our trade schools are no longer there. The skills to feed a manufacturing economy have been in decline, because of unlimited free trade, since that period. Letting the PRC into the WTO in 2001 was sort of a coup de grace. I recall very clearly the discussions I had with my dad over the question: Should I pick a trade and therefore the trade school/apprenticeship route to a livelihood, or go to university? Those discussions were in the late 1950s. I went to engineering school at UT-Austin, and I am glad I did, but the option was a seriously considered one. Today, thanks to major US manufacturers, with the help of Wall Street, shutting down most of the US manufacturing capacity, young men and women coming out of high school don’t have that option. Today, not only are there few trade schools to teach a person to be an electrician, welder, plumber or the like, the young high school graduate may be only marginally literate. Most certainly, his/her overall education as a high school graduate is at a lower level than that of his/her grandparents.

   https://www.mikeroweworks.org/

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   DonG (2+2=5. Say it!)

   @DonG

   4:29 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 19, 2021

   CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):
   Also I thought ivermectin was discovered by a French man who then got a Nobel prize for his work, and not the Japanese.

   Satoshi Omura of Tokyo discovered it.  He systematically searched in soil all over Japan to find anything with medicinal properties.  He did a Nobel prize. 

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   Architectus

   @Architectus

   7:35 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 20, 2021

   Miffed White Male (View Comment):

   Arnold Falk (View Comment):

   Regarding David Adler’s Inside Operation Warp Speed…

   Mr. Adler’s piece is compelling, but is missing a key issue about returning manufacturing to the USA.

   To anyone like me who grew up in the USA during the late 1940s to mid-1960s, this is obvious: our trade schools are no longer there. The skills to feed a manufacturing economy have been in decline, because of unlimited free trade, since that period. Letting the PRC into the WTO in 2001 was sort of a coup de grace. I recall very clearly the discussions I had with my dad over the question: Should I pick a trade and therefore the trade school/apprenticeship route to a livelihood, or go to university? Those discussions were in the late 1950s. I went to engineering school at UT-Austin, and I am glad I did, but the option was a seriously considered one. Today, thanks to major US manufacturers, with the help of Wall Street, shutting down most of the US manufacturing capacity, young men and women coming out of high school don’t have that option. Today, not only are there few trade schools to teach a person to be an electrician, welder, plumber or the like, the young high school graduate may be only marginally literate. Most certainly, his/her overall education as a high school graduate is at a lower level than that of his/her grandparents.

   https://www.mikeroweworks.org/

   A bright candle in the darkness… 

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   JuliaBach

   @JuliaBach

   9:51 PM EDT ⋅ Aug 14, 2021

   Gazpacho Grande' (View Comment):

   JuliaBach (View Comment):

   This fall is the real test for the vaccines, since they were administered mostly after cases had already atarted to come down, and they were tested during the summer (not respiratory illness season).

   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rmv.2241

   It already doesn’t really look good, as Pfizer suggests boosters already. Not a good sign.

   Or Pfizer will happily sell more doses. Can’t tell me that’s not part of their math. Considering the breakthrough infections that are happening now, not sure how more of the same fixes that problem.

   It won’t fix anything, but Andy Slavitt seems to think that everyone will line up every 90 days for a “refresh” booster.  Or that we have enough biopharma capacity to make them.  Really, they just have to make it until the Nobel Prizes are handed out this year…