It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the people in control forget how revolutions and uprisings got started. Hint: it wasn’t because people were happy and healthy. Read more

Gilead did shit for PREP we paid for it. It’s a Govt patent. Fuck Gilead in the ass without lube protection or prep with a chainsaw. Read more

Author neglects to mentions that Truvada should have been generic already and one company is ready to go, but is Gilead fighting it. Read more

Gilead has done too good of a job illustrating why Pharma being lucrative is unethical. Between HIV and Covid-19, they have done some great work but attaching a price tag to people’s lives is so dystopian.  Read more

In an ideal world all medications would be free and universally accessible to anyone who wants it.  Read more

Whenever the FDA approves a vaccine Trump, Pence and their families, Birx, etc. should be first in line to get it live on TV to gain public trust. But you know that will never happen. It will be declared “safe and effective” - for everyone else. Read more

So far, this administration has: Read more

I was looking into vaccine trials too. The one that was close to me home wasn't accepting people with certain health conditions, and hypothyroid that could be autoimmune was one of them. I've never had a cause for my hypothyroid diagnosed so I figured I'd be ineligible. Read more

Of course they say that. How many days until the election? Personally I think this is going to be a huge boondoggle. There are reasons why vaccine development take so long. (Besides the odds are with the administration fucking it all up because they picked donors to work on it instead of the more qualified companies.) Read more

If you feel comfortable getting it and pass whatever basics they are looking for health wise I don’t think it sounds bad. There’s of course risks, but if they seem legit and you trust them enough it sounds fine? Read more

Honestly, your added risk of dying from covid than you already have is probably so small as to be inconsequential. For me it would depend on the rules of the study. They’re not allowed to ask anything unethical but there can be a lot of follow up. What data are they collecting and how often? Read more

Note that the vaccine tests are not giving you a lessened dose of the virus. They have a lot of research on other SARS-like viruses, so they have other ways to vaccinate for it. This vaccine trial shouldn’t encourage anyone to act in a way that increases their likelihood of getting the virus, but the vaccine itself… Read more

Slightly off-topic, but I am seriously considering being a test subject for Kaiser for a vaccine. Read more

Yuuuuup. If a vaccine gets released by known liars through a corner-cutting process, I am definitely not lining up to get it on day one. We’ll see how the early adopters are doing after two weeks of supposed immunity. Read more

Yeah, I’m not the least bit hopeful. If it happens it happens, but I’ve learned to wait and see what this administration does (like removing federal funding for 13 COVID-19 test sites*) than listen to their promises**. Read more

And yet I feel...

My grandmother died of colon cancer and my mother has been getting colonoscopies since her 50s. I just emailed my doctor to see if I can start getting them earlier. Read more

Ten years, you say?

Harron, I wish I could share your optimism over a vaccine. I do not trust this administration to tell the truth any more than I’d trust them to tell me that Christmas is in December. Plus one third of Americans refuse to get the vaccine if there is one so we will always have COVID-19 unless there’s an enforced… Read more