Germany: Ready to Jab at a Moment's Notice

Germany is out in front in the race to stop Covid-19.  The country expects to start immunizing people against the disease before the year ends.  Though there are several companies in various stages of development (including Phase 3), the German-American research and development alliance is closest to deployment. 

  BioNTech is a German company which has been working with New York headquartered Pfizer.  Final results in the U.S. Phase 3 studies are   available now and BioNTech-Pfizer could soon received emergency authorization for the vaccine’s use in November of this year.

Germans already have set up plans to distribute the vaccines among 60 vaccination centers rather than doctor’s offices.  The centers are already set up. This is a much more efficient way of distributing vaccines.  Aside from efficiency, one of the biggest challenges in Germany, as in other countries, is security.   

Theft is a large concern.  Shipments of the vaccine will be easier to track and monitor as they are transported from the secret German transport hub to the vaccination centers located throughout Germany’s 16 states.  A second concern is to insure that the first vaccines go to the intended priority targets — health care workers, the elderly,  law-enforcement officials and other clinically or institutionally vulnerable people.

  BioNTech and Pfizer are already producing millions of doses to be able to deliver on pre-purchasing contracts. BioNTech says that their vaccine will be ready to jab   hours after they get authorization from the European Medicines Agency (equivalent of F.D.A in the U.S).  

The vaccination centers are equipped with cooling facilities. The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine can be stored at temperatures of up to 8 degrees Celsius for a week while for longer periods they must be kept at a temperature of -75 degrees. 

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I Voted Early and In-Person in New York

 

I voted for President Trump  early and in-person yesterday in New York so I’m positive my vote won’t end in a ditch, a drainage flume, or get burned up in a mailbox.  But with this being the People’s Republic of New York, neither would my vote count in the win column for Trump regardless.  Democrats own the electoral votes.      I was determined to vote for Trump in person even if I were dead.   

Besides voting in person  , I also voted for most of the down-ballot candidates on the Republican side.  I wasn’t expecting to wait  so long in lines but the fair weather was one factor.  The sun was shining brightly   and the temperatures were very comfortable. The voting lines were more than I expected but  not overwhelming as they are described in the national headlines.  I had to wait only about twenty to thirty minutes before I got to the machines.   

I have a theory about the long lines for early voting.  Since I’m living in Democrat dominated New York state, it’s probably better than a theory.  All those Democrats waiting in line are just as skeptical of the   new uncontrollable mail-in process as I am.  This even while the media seems intent on saying the lack of confidence in the electoral system is   entirely in the domain of  Republicans. 

No, it’s in the domain of common sense.  If a thousand people died suddenly of Covid-19, there would be hysteria and panic at CNN.  If a thousand votes get thrown away, burned, counterfeited, highjacked, counted double, not counted – none of that means much because CNN and its brethren are constantly telling you that such fears are absurd.

At the very least mine is  a protest vote, and maybe there was a silent majority in that unusually quiet voting crowd who will surprise.  It’s a pretty easy vote for me.  I prefer Trump’s plain speaking, argumentative hit and miss style to the unctuous  plagiarized campaign slogan prose of slickster Biden.  

The Hate-Trump crowd  knows damn well Covid-19 infections would be just as bad or even worse had Hilary Clinton won in 2016. And I’m pretty sure that, if Biden had been in the White House when the pandemic hit here, we’d have millions dead and the rest of  us with herd immunity. 

With Biden, we’d have to wait three years for a vaccine even if one developed by Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna,  AstraZenica, or several other expedited  epidemiological concerns were available   next month. I really can’t countenance the way Democrats are taking the low road on something that benefits the country. It’s scurrilous.  If I could think of a worse word I would use it. Despicable maybe?   Getting all those pharma companies to work without fear of being guillotined by a leftist government is   the type of thing Trump does well.

I’m not a blind Trump follower with ghoulish eyes beaming   out of my skull.  I voted for Jeb Bush in the 2016 primary.  I voted for Trump in the national. When he won, I regarded him as an accidental president. I still do. But never in my wildest imagination did I think he’d do as well as he has for all citizens of America including minorities. Like JFK said, “A rising tide lifts all boats.”       

 Trump’s public remarks occasionally annoyed me   but more often he communicated  some fundamental truths that the entrenched “expert” bureaucrats need to hear, however ineloquent.  Trump is a far better choice than the confused,   doddering, gaffe-ridden shadow-candidate the DNC puppeteers offered up in the hopes that a slavish  media would elevate him to viable status.   

Beyond the rhetoric, I’m very strong on Trump’s accomplishments, including his handling of the coronavirus epidemic. I might say especially for his handling of the epidemic which the Biden crowd  is cynically targeting.   I'm in agreement on just about every other policy position or change that Trump made but I'll save that for another time.