I feel like crying in relief. The doubling time of the UK strain being 20 days instead of 10, the massive boost of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and the FDA announcing that they will have a streamlined process for approving vaccine modifications for the new variants. Together those three pieces of news alone probably mean at least a hundred thousand lives saved.
It seems weird to me that so few people have emotional reactions to this type of news. We get worked up about one person getting stabbed or raped, but if a hundred thousand fewer people die from an infectious disease, most people don’t even celebrate.
I feel like crying in relief. The doubling time of the UK strain being 20 days instead of 10, the massive boost of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and the FDA announcing that they will have a streamlined process for approving vaccine modifications for the new variants. Together those three pieces of news alone probably mean at least a hundred thousand lives saved.
It seems weird to me that so few people have emotional reactions to this type of news. We get worked up about one person getting stabbed or raped, but if a hundred thousand fewer people die from an infectious disease, most people don’t even celebrate.