Samantha Bee from 9/9/2020

Vaccine I – And the reality is, even if there is a vaccine by, say, the end of the year – that doesn’t mean it will be available by the end of the year. After it it deemed successful and approved, then they have to make enough of it. Expecting anything else is like thinking that if you cook dinner for your family tonight, you can feed to whole town with it. Noises are being made about vaccinating those with pre-existing conditions first. No thank you! I have participated in product testing, but not for anything this critical, and I am not interested.

Vaccine II – This is a good (oversimplified but good) explanation of how vaccines, and any pharmaceutical for that matter, gets developed. (I’m glad she brought up Henrietta Lacks – probably the person in history who saved the most people’s lives without ever having given consent.) Also the importance of effectiveness at a higher level than 44%

Police in Schools – I said this on the open thread, but it bears repeating – in my school district, a teacher called the police on, and suspended, a black student for having a toy gun in his own home – yes, the class was on line. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHhhh !!!

Quarantine and School – Quarantine is tough with kids (and not just for the parents who wouldn’t have had them if they had known they would have to raise them themselves.) There’s a lot to think about here, (But there’s still no excuse for calling the cops on a black kid who has a toy gun in his own home@)

Just a little reminder …