But when will we get a Trumpism vaccine?
It was inevitable that the Covid vaccine, like face masks and the space race, would be weaponised
Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective, its makers crow. "Oorah," a US Marine might shout. "Get some!"Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine — launched by a smug Vladimir Putin in August — is also 90% effective, or so its health ministry claims."Urra!" a Russian infantryman might shout, dropping the "get some" because right now in Russia — with a population of 146-million and just 2.3-million doses expected to be available by year-end — the average citizen probably has a better shot of going to the moon than getting vaccinated.It was inevitable that the vaccine, like face masks and the space race, would be weaponised. For weeks Donald Trump, grasping the jetsam of his sinking re-election campaign, superspread the claim that a vaccine was "just around the corner".So it was, and now Pfizer’s post facto announcement has become yet another conspiracy, with Trump’s chief sockpuppet, sorry, son, Mini-Don, suggesting the timing was "nefarious". To paraphrase the narrator in the 1...
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