Pfizer, Last Hope For Pre-Election COVID Vaccine, Hits Out At ‘Politicization’ During Debate | Talking Points Memo

I like cats better, but I certainly don’t hate dogs and don’t understand a person who does. Oh wait, I do.

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The fact that he hates dogs is proof he’s a bad person and therefore could never be a good president

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OT-CNBC/Change Research has the first poll conducted entirely after the debate. Biden 54%, Trump 41%. That’s landslide territory.

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" “disappointed that the prevention for a deadly disease was discussed in political terms rather than scientific facts.”

When someone is trying their damnedest to avoid going to prison nothing is off the table.

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I’m gonna unilaterally declare that wonderful polling news will not be OT on any thread for the duration. We’re all about at the ends of our ropes here and good news helps.

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And even Shrub looked like a perfectly normal human, enjoying his pooch.

Trump prefers grabbing felines…

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After you’ve killed more than 200,000, knocking off a few more is easy.

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Yes, 54% sane, 41% insane/racist/fascist/AmericanTaliban and apparently 5% obliviot.
You’d have to be an obliviot or insane or racist or fascist or AmericanTaliban to not go for Joe.

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+1

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I keep coming back to manufacturing the vaccine, prioritizing who gets it first, and distribution.
Now I know that two or more of these companies have have a two shot vaccine protocol, how are they going to coordinate that? And what’s the outside limit of the length of time between the two shots?
And who is paying for this?

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Well, obviously the effect would have to come from the announcement itself. In practical terms, I haven’t heard that even a highly effective vaccine would just make the pandemic go poof. But lots of people don’t know that and would get a lift just from imagining it could happen in some foreseeable future.

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And to add to the fun, the shots aren’t interchangeable between companies, so if you get the first shot from one, you need to have the second also from them.

Logistics nightmare.

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Trumpy has delivery all worked out with newfangled multi-purpose vehicles…

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And how many of those dogs are immigrant dogs and/or foreign born dogs. If dogs other than these American dogs show up at the polling place…

  1. Alaskan Husky
  2. Alaskan Klee Kai
  3. Alaskan Malamute
  4. American Bulldog
  5. American Cocker Spaniel
  6. American English Coonhound
  7. American Eskimo Dog
  8. American Foxhound
  9. American Hairless Terrier
  10. American Leopard Hound
  11. American Pit Bull Terrier
  12. American Staffordshire Terrier
  13. American Water Spaniel
  14. Australian Shepherd
  15. Black and Tan Coonhound
  16. Black and Tan Virginia Foxhound
  17. Black Mouth Cur
  18. Blue Lacy
  19. Bluetick coonhound
  20. Boston Terrier
  21. Boykin Spaniel
  22. Carolina Dog
  23. Catahoula Bulldog
  24. Catahoula Cur
  25. Chesapeake Bay Retriever
  26. Chinook (dog)
  27. Cur
  28. English Shepherd
  29. Feist (dog)
  30. Hare Indian Dog
  31. Hawaiian Poi Dog
  32. King Shepherd
  33. Kyi-Leo
  34. Longhaired Whippet
  35. Majestic Tree Hound
  36. McNab dog
  37. Miniature American Shepherd
  38. Miniature Australian Shepherd
  39. Mountain Cur
  40. Old Time Farm Shepherd
  41. Olde English Bulldogge
  42. Pit bull
  43. Plott Hound
  44. Rat Terrier
  45. Redbone Coonhound
  46. Salish Wool Dog
  47. Shiloh Shepherd Dog
  48. Silken Windhound
  49. Stephens Cur
  50. Teddy Roosevelt Terrier
  51. Toy Fox Terrier
  52. Toy Manchester Terrier
  53. Treeing Cur
  54. Treeing Tennessee Brindle
  55. Treeing Walker Coonhound
  56. Trigg Hound
  57. White Shepherd
    then the poll worker must demand their papers please.
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Diogenes
Diogenes was right.

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Actually, I just checked and as usual, those numbers are among “Likely Voters” and I assume that doesn’t capture a large number of the 100 million no-shows from 2016. If the past three and a half years have woke even a percentage of those folks, the numbers will be way off. Can’t guarantee it, but I do wish this was being addressed by pollsters, either with a discussion of their “Likely Voter” models, or by additional polling to measure any swings.

Personally, I’m keying of thing like “Biden/Harris raise record one hour amount during debate” and “Act Blue raises $40 million in one day”. Oh, and any word on fundraising out of the Trump camp? Of course - the story is “The campaign manager stole $40 million, still no word on how much the candidate skimmed”.

Something’s afoot…

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The Pfizer and Moderna are RNA vaccines. They require storage at -70C. Doctor’s offices and pharmacies don’t have freezers at that temp and there aren’t enough to fill orders if they all tried to get them. Dry ice supplies are insufficient as well. So there will have to be a central repository in each area where the vaccines will be administered, The J&J is stored at normal refrigerator temps, so that won’t be a factor there, but they have been delayed with the adverse event in the UK.

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But wait! Evidently Trump is up big in the highly non-respected bogus polls category, so you have to take that into account. (You do not have to take that into account.)

Trump campaign adviser @JasonMillerinDC is now rattling off online debate polls Trump won including "the New Jersey dot com poll" and the "KISS FM Phoenix online survey."

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) October 1, 2020
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You forgot mine, the Brittany. Ok, she’s white and not from a shithole country, but still…

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I believe that Trumplethinskin has skimmed so much that he is now way far behind and is having a very difficult time grifting his rubes for more.

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