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1 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
@Daniel83106448 I know, right. All this time I've been thinking that no matter what, by fall 2021 life starts to back to normal. Commerce really starts to bounce back bc people like you & me who are not cavalier about dying start to engage in the public economy again (restaurants, movies, etc)
@Daniel83106448 But instead, we might literally go back right to the beginning! Surely, the experts/Biden team is realizing this.

Assuming we can't mass produce vaccines anywhere sadly, the ONLY option is to enact, right now, a global shut down like we did at the very beginning, but one like
@Daniel83106448 China did. An actual draconian one that totally kills off the spread of the virus so we have time to produce the vaccine & prevent the mutations. And there is literally NO WAY that would ever happen. MB in Canada & the EU- but here? Brazil? Just no way! For the 1st time, I'm
@Daniel83106448 genuinely worried! Of course, I'm basing the info on the fact that the pfizer vaccine can't be produced in a different drug companies plants (keep in mind, I'm not say they lose the $/patent- just that they get production help) anyway, I'm basing the info that that can't be done
@Daniel83106448 off of twitter comments. I'm not sure I follow why a pharma production lab that produces, say the flu vaccine, couldn't produce the pfizer vaccine for a few months instead.

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Fun Fact: in races like NC senate the campaigns were BEGGING to be able to respond to these attacks & guess what, the current ruling class
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