Something about vaccines nobody ever mentions ...

[Jeebo]

Those nameless, faceless, anonymous individuals wearing white lab coats who did the research and developed those vaccines are heroes. Nobody ever gives them credit for their amazing accomplishment. Think about what they did. That virus is tiny, so small you can only even see it under the most powerful microscopes. Think about the difficulties involved in dealing with something like that. That's why it normally takes so long to develop a new vaccine, and yet they developed these effective vaccines in record time. Those people are smart, clever, resourceful, skilled, determined, industrious ... I could go on and on with the glowing adjectives. And yet, these stupid anti-vaccine assholes profoundly disrespect those heroic lab workers and their amazing accomplishment. Those heroes in the white lab coats deserve all kinds of praise and accolades and yet their wonderful accomplishment gets only criticism and suspicion and derision and profound disrespect from those anti-vaccine assholes. What can more profoundly disrespect those heroes and their accomplishment than calling it "poison" and absolutely refusing to be vaccinated?

-- Ron

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. K&R

[Brainfodder]

2. Uh..... Jonas Salk?

Once greed machine corporations took over, not much for the actual worker accolades?

[Native]

3. Not to mention the thousands of people who signed up for the trials!

[Bev54]

6. Or the billions of doses that have been administered.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Pretty typical, sadly.

This country is mostly ruled by the people who want status and power, ideally with as little effort as possible, not the truth-seekers and intellectually curious.

Visit a university bookstore, and marvel at the many dumbed-down textbooks labeled "for business majors". Those are the textbooks for tomorrow's "business leaders", who mostly call the shots in our economic system.

Some of them even become President, like the orange goblin.

[Bev54]

5. They also don't seem to understand the the mRNA base was started 30 years ago

And they have been working on the covid strains since Sars, 20 years ago. But oooh, it is too new we don't know anything about it.

[marybourg]

16. M$M hardly mentioned this fact after the first day

They prefer to stir up discord.

[zipplewrath]

17. This is the part people don't understand about "fundamental research"

Scientific knowledge very often, almost always, starts with research for which there is no obvious result.

mRna research was going on for a decade or more before anyone knew anything about Covid-19.

And, as they say, thank God.

[SouthernIrish]

7. I think of them daily in my prayers.

I include all healthcare workers and people and animals involved in the trials. All are unsung heroes, in my opinion. Without these people, humans would be extinct.

[panader0]

8. Meet the trailblazing Black woman scientist who had a huge part --Kizzmekia Corbett

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/04/04/covid-vaccine-kizzmekia-corbett-black-scientist-orig.cnn

[DURHAM D]

9. Thank you for posting.

Dr, Corbett was my first thought when I saw the OP.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

11. Don't forget

The Immortal Henrietta Lacks.

Although she never knew of her contributions, sadly.

[Hortensis]

10. My husband and I are great admirers. The people who change the world

are researchers and developers like them. Everyone else, including national leaders, is riding their whirlwind.

[llmart]

12. +1000

These are the true heroes as far as I'm concerned, not some pampered movie star or basketball star. Our country puts those types on pedestals instead of the ones who are saving our lives quietly with no need for accolades or awards programs.

[Journeyman]

13. "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race" . . .

by Walter Isaacson.

[Poiuyt]

15. Great book!

[hoosierspud]

20. I was going to recommend it, too!

You beat me to it. Great explanation of CRISPR technology.

[Poiuyt]

14. Don't forget Dolly Parton

[hoosierspud]

21. She helped Vanderbilt develop the Moderna vaccine.

[MissMillie]

22. Thankful for them, for sure, but also thankful

for those willing to participate in the vaccine effectiveness/safety trials.

[demigoddess]

23. I love vaccines, I have missed so many horrible diseases because of them.

shingles, polio, small pox, thyphoid, typhus, just to name a few.

[onecaliberal]

24. I thank goddess for them on the daily.

[YoshidaYui]

25. I did not leave my house for two full years until they

(City of San Francisco) brought me the shot, in my condition I would have died of COVID. I have not only gotten the shot, but boosters as well and I constantly wear my mask, have not gotten the disease, and am still at home, except when I have to go to the hospital.

[Paper Roses]

26. Not only the researchers but all in the healthcare field, our thanks to them.

For all they have done, for all the challenges and risks they took, I am grateful.

I'm an old timer with health issues. Been stuck, like others, in the house for 2 years. Without the sacrifices of these great people, I'm sure I would not be here to post this.

I know first hand what some of the workers have gone through.
My daughter is a doctor. Over 2 years ago, her schedule was something like...up at 5:30, shower, toast and coffee, off to the hospital. Work until about 7PM, home, light supper, bed by 9PM, repeat for 2 + years. 5 or 6 days a week.

I did not see my family for almost 2 years like everyone--or almost everyone, this has been a loss. Missed my granddaughters graduation from HS. Actually, there was no ceremony. Did not see either of my grandchildren for 2 years. One graduates from UCLA in May, the other, now at William & Mary will be doing an internship in Virginia so I won't see her either.

I suppose this is normal but at this stage of my life, the loss of time with family has been a huge, depressing situation.
Then again, I am lucky I guess. So many have been lost thru this pandemic, my situation is not unusual. I'm so thankful to all the workers, no matter at what point, that I am still here. There are not enough ways to thank all of them.

[lordsummerisle]

27. k&r n/t

[Laha]

28. Hell yeah

Cheers to the scientists that keep us alive.