Professor Luke O'Neill: COVID-19 is now a preventable disease

[OnDoutside]

Professor Luke O'Neill says we are now closer to the end of the pandemic, and that COVID-19 is now preventable.

Luke Anthony John O'Neill FRS is professor of biochemistry in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_A._J._O'Neill

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/inflazome-roche-acquisition

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Yep, and yet I can guarantee you trump supporters will not get vaccinated and they will

cause mass death and suffering, on purpose, to show support for the single dumbest most corrupt human being alive.

So all of you out there who tried to silence the folks who called the GOP out YEARS ago, apologize now please.

[roamer65]

3. Weaponizing the virus is GENOCIDE.

They are committing genocide.

[OnDoutside]

5. Yes! And I wish people would start referring to it as Republican Genocide, because that's what it is

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. There are 50 million Americans, approximately, who want you and me dead.

They will use softer language but they want us gone and they dont care how.

[GulfCoast66]

17. I would call it suicide. They are not killing the 94% of democrat

Who have or plan on getting the vaccine.

[Initech]

19. Actually the technical term for it is pandemicide.

Still just as heinous!

[roamer65]

20. ..

[Skittles]

8. I honestly cannot understand the correlation

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Trump, who fails to pay taxes, gets THE best medical treatment for Covid at taxpayer expense, then also gets the vaccine. AND he takes credit for how quickly the vaccine was developed. Yet his supporters refuse to be vaccinated? It just really shows what a brain-dead cult his supporters are.

[OnDoutside]

9. I think it can be narrowed down to where they're getting their information, unfortunately, and I

do not see it changing until they see their own communities ravaged by it.

[Skittles]

11. that's really a hallmark of conservatism

you don't give a FUCK until it affects YOU

[OnDoutside]

13. Exactly. Personal responsibility is what they throw at people needing help, well a lot of them are

about to get a dose of it themselves.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. They give him credit for the vaccine being done so quickly then refuse to get it.

In reality we know he not only didnt help matters but hindered them, but in their world he was the hero.

They hate you and me so much, they hate BLACK people so much they are willing to die to hold on to that hate.

[Skittles]

14. I have been successful in getting some "wait and see" friends to get vaccinated

but I don't even try with the Trump humpers I know......dealing with them just gives me a headache

[Rhiannon12866]

16. +1000

[abqtommy]

2. What we're seeing right now is a group that has been vaccinated and is enjoying some

immunity. The rest of the folks, not so much.

[OnDoutside]

4. Yes, and that rest of folks now have to contend with not knowing who is vaccinated and who isn't.

This really is the person responsibility that they say they wanted !

[Yavin4]

6. And yet, it's incredibly frustrating to listen to the crackpot anti-vaxxers

who see vast conspiracies every where with no proof.

[OnDoutside]

12. Totally agree. My SIL and her daughter are anti-vax, big into alternative medicine/vegetarianism and

all that sort of thing. They've been like that for decades, always searching for something, the next big thing that's in opposition to the "Official" advice. Very frustrating.

[GulfCoast66]

18. Ironically mRNA vaccines are the biggest 'next new thing' in generations.

Read today they are testing a mRNA vaccine for HIV.

I’m a science major and have a greater than layman’s understanding of DNA although by no means well versed. But from what I’ve read there is real potential for mRNA technology to find vaccines not only for viruses, but cancer and molecular parasites like the one that causes malaria.

We finally have a way to ‘program’ the immune system to attack what it’s told. To simplify the subject to a ridiculous level. Hopefully some of our research scientist on DU will further educate me.

If you SIL gets cancer and there is an mRNA treatment that could kill it I’d bet dollars to donuts she would be clamoring for it.

[renate]

22. I've been a vegetarian for 35 years and I got the vaccine ASAP

I don’t think there’s any positive correlation between a belief in science and a disinclination to eat sentient beings simply because they taste good for the fleeting minutes it takes to eat their dead flesh.

I’m genuinely sorry to sound snarky and I think we basically agree about medicine and science, but what you said is really unfair.

[OnDoutside]

23. To be fair I'm not having a go at vegetarianism, I'm drawing the

contrast of their alternative-ism as opposed to someone would still be perceived as mainstream in lifestyle but are completely ignorant of facts/actuality.

They've completely bought into the herbal medicine "cures", reiki, acupuncture etc and within that space are anti vaxxers as well. Her daughter has a 10 year old daughter who has not received any vaccine at all. I think that's a disgrace and she should not be allowed in a school with other children... actually Florida have it right in that regard....my brother had to submit his son's vaccination records for his school in Florida.

I would contrast them to a "mainstream" neighbor who received chemo for oesophageal cancer, yet won't get vaccinated because of the shit he's read on Facebook...

[Lancero]

21. Doubt that they're the only group pushing conspiracy theories - The anti-gmo crowd...

Certainly disagrees with the existence of the mRNA vaccine, and the anti-vaxx crowd does make quite the convenient cover for them.