• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 年前

        Smells a bit like American exceptionalism.

        “America is so important, we singlehandedly forced scientists to accelerate with developing the vaccine because we are so important and big.”

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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        Um, huh?.. vaccines are how you stop viruses… It’s as if you said “scientists rushing to stop COVID because Americans refuse to try to stop COVID”, which is just silly.

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          2 年前

          Vaccines aren’t the only way to stop viruses. There’s also masking and social distancing and hand washing.

          I think that’s the point. We could have taken the pressure off scientists and doctors and nurses and service employees and everyone else by doing simple things that a vocal, ignorant portion of society decided was too inconvenient to tolerate.