Thank goodness I'm not an AP US History student studying document-based questions in 2066, though. Not sure I'd enjoy having to write essays trying to analyze people's incoherent pandemic texts from March 2020.

One of the only good things Donald Trump's administration did was the aggressive funding of COVID vaccine research and development and it is *insane* that Ron DeSantis is trying to run against him on *that*, of all issues.

@lxeagle17 Or maybe….. just maybe…. It wasn’t incredibly dangerous

@sbogg10 ooh here we go, COVID debates in the year of our lord 2023, please do excuse me while I go take a nap instead.

@lxeagle17 Still a borderline miracle but the vaccine was absolutely not developed in a year. It took a couple decades.

@lxeagle17 The development of the vaccine and uptake by a large majority of some incredibly polarised societies is one of humanity’s greatest achievements of this generation. The only objectionable part was the societal mandates that were in place for a while. These did more harm than good

@lxeagle17 This was truly awe-inspiring

@lxeagle17 and part of this is deploying a borderline miraculous vaccine platform that will soon be able to fight some of the other deadliest diseases in history

@lxeagle17 Warp speed should be the minimum going forward

@lxeagle17 With all due respect, I think you need some historical perspective because this response is exactly what happened after the 1919 flu, with the same timeline, without a vaccine.

@lxeagle17 It's an aftertheought b/c we stopped tracking and reporting on it, it's still killing a shitload of people and will continue to do ao as long as we pretend it's an afterthought. The long term side effects are horrific even in mild cases. We've effectively crippled a generation

@lxeagle17 I remember thinking that must have been how it felt to watch someone walk on the moon.

@lxeagle17 400 people are still dying everyday, just another American tragedy built into America's health care system.

@lxeagle17 @neogaia The important theoretical work on mRNA vaccines had been completed in the decade before by Katalin Kariko at Penn, so things were relatively straightforward.

@lxeagle17 The fact that a virus that still kills and can also cause long-term disability, was allowed to spread unchecked as people were led to believe repeat infection was harmless, is something historians will probably view as one of the biggest leadership failures of the century.

@lxeagle17 It's not an afterthought for the 1.1 million dead or millions of Americans suffering from long cov1d. Nor the 1k+ still dying and thousands more getting from long cov1d each week. Numbers btw which are vast undercounts because Biden has taken away most forms of data collection.

@lxeagle17 @chenyanqing Thanks for saying disabled and immunocompromised people basically don't matter I guess, and neither do those suffering from Long Covid, or dying of sudden unexplained strokes or cardiac arrest, or