Friday, May 29, 2020

'Toontime: Stayin' Shaggy

credit A. Zyglis, Buffalo News
Yes, US Person feels it too! His hair was already two months long before the lockdown, so now it has grown to sixties length. TOTAL DOUCHE does not have this problem; for a politician so vain about his appearance that he wears makeup, it must be a relief.
credit: A. Zygis, Buffalo News
Wackydoodle sez:  Hell, jist shoot em!
One of the many, many lies TOTAL has spewed in his endless propaganda (more than 22 a day in 2019 according to WaPo) is that a vaccine will be available by the end of this year. Unfortunately the Pentagon does not seem to agree. Who are you going to trust in this deplorable truth contest?  A memo written by Kenneth Rapuano, Assistant Secretary of Defense and leaked to the press, says the Pentagon should plan for a prolonged pandemic since a vaccine will not be publicly available until “at least the summer of 2021.” So much for a "warp speed" program to develop a vaccine by the end of the year.

The head of this "Star Trek" program, Moncef Slaoui, a former executive at Moderna, which is developing a vaccine in coordination with the government, said, “Frankly, 12 to 18 months is already a very aggressive timeline.” Slaoui benefited from a bump in his company's stock price in response to encouraging news about vaccine development because he still had millions invested even after he was appointed to head the government's vaccine effort. In response to criticism about this gross conflict, he sold Moderna stock and donated the gains to cancer research. “In the best of circumstances, we should have a vaccine—or let’s say vaccines—between 12 and 18 months,” says Stanley Plotkin, the individual credited with creating the rubella vaccine in the 1960s. Even if a vaccine is widely available by January, 2021 polls indicate only 50% of 'Mericans would be willing to take it. Herd immunity, USA!

US COVID Deaths (est.): 142,300

No more Mr. Nice Guy....