Russia Approves Coronavirus Vaccine Despite Intense International Skepticism | Talking Points Memo

Putin will offer it to Trump as an October Surprise. Watch and retch…

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The Russian Vaccineimage causes the following side effects:

Dizziness
Vomiting
Nausea
Diarrhea
Night Sweats
Night Terrors
Delusions of Grandeur
Pomposity
Narcissistic Tendencies
and
Causes skin to turn orange

Take this product only under a quack doctor’s supervision.

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Or death, whichever comes first.

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Trump didn’t invent Bullshit, he is actually a very poor practitioner (he always gets caught), there are many master Bullshiters in the world, and Putin is one. Most of the other experts are in the religious business.

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This from the land of T.D. Lysenko and exploding television sets.

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At some point in the near future a sample will be stolen or even given to a Western Health agency who will analyze it and give an appraisal.

The “vaccine” may even work to a certain extent, but this is clearly a propaganda announcement. I suspect that Russia’s covid-19 response has been worse than we are aware and that many deaths are not being counted. But the relatives of the dead know and there has been a lot unrest in eastern Russia.

Something tells me this an act of desperation by Putin.

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Tonight Tucker Carlson will consider: if it wasn’t for Benghazi, the US would have been first in the coronavirus vaccine race.

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C’mon, why the skepticism? How many times did Dr. McCoy whip up a vaccine for some space virus on the Enterprise, inject everyone without knowing whether it would work, but then, after a brief freak out, everyone was fine, and they all flew off, laughing all the way to the next galaxy?

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Uh-huh.

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Yeah, but dead people don’t get COVID, do they? Got an answer to that, bubba?

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(getting into character: moose and squirrel. moose and squirrel. moose and squirrel. moose and squirrel. moose and squirrel. )

“Is barium and polonium mix. Guarantee, virus dead. Just like pesky reporter.”

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Multiple college athletes have been diagnosed with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle that can be caused by viral infections like COVID-19.

According to ESPN, at least five Big Ten athletes have been diagnosed with myocarditis, a rare condition that can lead to heart damage and even cardiac arrest if it’s untreated. The diagnoses, according to the story, are why leaders across the Big Ten have been seriously weighing the possibility of not playing football and other fall sports in 2020.

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This Russian vaccine is either

  • A. highly risky
    Or
  • B.very very weak … providing some - but - limited protection … of a very limited duration

Possibly both … as there are long lists of unknowns …

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Here’s a fun one:

Who would you feel is more likely to announce a vaccine that actually works?

  • Donald Trump
  • Vladimir Putin

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My own thought is ol’ Vlad, because he doesn’t need to lie for the sake of reelection.

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So, it’s vodka?

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I don’t want to die, but if it’s going to be under Alison Brie, well, I can think of worse ways to go.

(ie. most of them)

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Hard core proponents of football are already arguing:

  • nobody’s died yet
  • even if there are a few deaths - they will only be a few
  • it is a tough sport - so get tough
  • long term effects? Who doesn’t have long term effects - knees, shoulders, concussions … it is football!
  • there’s money to be made … commercially to be run … fans to be satisfied.
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You’d have to be a flaming idiot to believe a damn thing that comes out of Putin’s Russia. The joint is addicted to lying and obsessed with being seen as a world power. The vaccine claim would put them on the world stage as an achiever and scientifically advanced nation. It is neither. How many people died in the USSR’s desperate rush to put a man in space first? They threw caution to the wind and sacrificed many in order to be first. You can bet this vaccine follows the same formula.

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