There’s a lot of misinformation going around about the Covid-19 vaccines, so now is a good time to bring this back.
Quick science note: of the Covid vaccines currently approved/pending that I’ve seen, none contain live or weakened viruses.
There’s not a whole virus in this particular vaccine; it’s just a little strip of genetic code that cues your body to make one of the identifying proteins of the COVID-19 virus. Your body uses up all these instructions, produces some marker proteins, realizes these proteins are foreign, and produces immunity against them. So whenever a virus that has this spike protein invades, your body already recognizes it and has a defense prepared.
And it’s not that the vaccines were ‘rushed.’ Yes, they were tested much more quickly than usual, but that’s because the hardest thing to get – volunteers who might be exposed – has not been a problem this time. The vaccines were tested, and the results and data have been reviewed properly.
ANY vaccine could be developed in about a year if there was also this big a pool of volunteers to test them, this much government grant money being thrown into R&D, and a guarantee that it’ll sells billions of doses once it hits the market.
The fact that more of them AREN’T developed this fast is one of the failures of for-profit medicine.
let me know what I’m missing lmao. Based on several great posts (x)(x)
EDIT: it was brought to my attention by @deanification that I failed to mention that Supernatural is also problematic because of racism and its treatment of poc. As a fandom, we all should make a better effort at recognizing racism in the show as well!
Notice that there are FOUR people in the car for the supposed ending
does everyone who is not fully plugged into the spn fandom right now know that after they filmed the confession scene misha collins and jensen ackles almost died in a small plane crash because you all need to know this
in case you were wondering as of november 10 you have to go to page 54 of the supernatural tag on ao3 until you see fics that were published before november 5
someone has written one where dean owns the four seasons total landscaping and castiel works at the sex shop
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