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I can't help but wonder a bit about all the 'experts' and 'researchers' out there getting paid big $, yet they appear lost at the moment when it comes to combating a virus outbreak.
The amount of money spent on R&D for health (including Virology) in the past 30 years is absolutely insane, but here we are, the US (and the rest of the world) caught knowing very little about a virus that is taking people's lives, and is crushing the economy, and has absolutely paralyzed human life.
So many experts out there (110,000 researchers from around the world), so much money spent ($60 Billion per year in the US alone the past 15 years, $30 Billion of which directly allocated to the NIH), and all we got is "stay at home" and "wear a mask" and "wash your hands with soap."
Where is the accountability for money spent on Virology R&D?
- Well, having a vaccine in under a year considering otherwise it would take 5...********
- Then again why we spend so much paying politicians and gov, with them being so useless rn...********
- It's expensive because it's still beyond our medical capabilities and could be catastrophic—just due diligence.monoboy
- while paying so little to "essential" workers and so on and so forth********
- the vaccine almost certainly already exists (there are 21+ in trials) it takes a year to make sure it's not going to kill people.kingsteven
- not to mention Chi na dropped the ba ll this time bigtime, so they should at least send a few trillion PPEs our way and stop eating bats********
- So a search for a vaccine is all we got? After 30+ years of research and half a trillion dollars spent? Hmm. Dunno.Krassy
- It’s not as simple and easy as throwing more money at it.monospaced
- ^ agreedKrassy
- but the money spent should be justified by some more breakthroughs than just a search for a vaccine and "wash your hands" adviceKrassy
- I guess it goes to show how complicated this is and not all viruses respond to vaccines, in fact most don't especially when they mutate so readily._niko
- it took us 40 years to come up with a reliable ebola vaccine and that was with tons of money and research thrown at it. at the same time we discovered the_niko
- smallpox vaccine almost buy luck by exposing a person with the similar cowpox virus and letting the body form antibodies and thus immunity to smallpox._niko
- Right, we have solar energy, wifi, satelites in orbit, brain embedded medical devices, self-driving cars, etc yet we got "wear a mask" when it comes to VirologyKrassy
- Sounds like a lot of Virology 'scientists' and 'researchers' are doing fuck all and just collecting grant $. No breakthroughs. No accountability.Krassy
- sounds like a pretty reductive way to view science and medicine.inteliboy
- I also DEMAND to know why we can't reverse engineer millions of years of evolution and natural selection. Maybe it appears simple but it's far from it.dorf
- Krassy must be one of Trump’s top advisors.imbecile
- I can't get my head around the level of ignorance in Krassy's posts here. There are over 21 vaccines being trialled within 2 months of discovery of the viruskingsteven
- it's like he's seriously asking. 30 billion a year and we can't live forever yet? as the world gets smaller the risk of pandemics gets biggerkingsteven
- How dare you krassy. You are so ignorant to question the experts. Get him QBN! Protect your precious communism!Hayoth
- there were multiple coronavirus vaccines researched at the time of SARS but funding was pulled. 6 months after this is over it'll be forgotten about tookingsteven
- @imbecile, please don't make this political, as I didn't either. (For the record, I can't stand Trump prob as much if not more than you)Krassy
- @kingsteven please enlighten me as to the 'level of ignorance.' What an I ignorant about? I am full aware of the vaccines being developed.Krassy
- I celebrate scientific advances and am not here to discredit any efforts made! I just question the use/misuse of funds and the vaccines-only approach.Krassy
- There appears to be a lack of research in the field of functional medicine, particularly in studying the microbiome.Krassy
- maybe this will help you understand... top mathematicians and statisticians with the most powerful computers can not predict lottery numbers.imbecile
- ^ LOL! what!? haha. Silly 'analogy' to what I am talking about. Tnx much for helping me understand . Pffft..Krassy
- the virus reacts to human dna in a very particular way, the result varies from virus to virus, to cure or subside the effects takes a very particular antibioticimbecile
- you expect them to guess what the virus does and cure it before they ever find the new strain? Krassy, you'd top trump aid for sureimbecile
- *vaccineimbecile
- Krassy believes this tweet :D https://i.ibb.co/xMw…imbecile
- it's a legit question, we can say the same for cancer research and that budget is many times greater. We also now have supercomputers crunching data_niko
- making calculations in minutes that would have taken us decades to make, and still we're no closer to curing cancer._niko
- "There appears to be a lack of research in the field of functional medicine, particularly in studying the microbiome."yuekit
- Haha are you even remotely in this line of work Krassy? Where did you get a quote like this from?yuekit
- Not saying this is necessary wrong as I know nothing about it either. Just find it funny how everyone is an "expert" these days on every topic.yuekit
- From what I am reading here...
https://en.wikipedia…yuekit - ..."functional medicine" does not sound like something I would want the government to be investing billions of dollars in.yuekit
- i think krassy is on to something he just isnt seeing it. yes the increased amount of spending is asinine. Mainly due to know matter the amount of throwing********
- money at problems solve them. Better solution is seeing gov spending and third party systems contribute to so much financial waste in a system driven********
- mostly on gaming insurance and federal subsidies. one awesome thing about this is the billables in medicine not related reducing salaries********
- hopefully that pressure might help some peopel to split...though our local hospital just got a ton of people to sign non competes... i do like that right now i********
- can order contact lenses without renewing a prescription through an eye doc. One swhihc usually will do every test to max out insurance payments at no cost to u********
- it took them something like 4years to identify the virus that causes AIDS in the 80‘s.uan
- Lol! Haven’t seen ‘prayers’ and ‘thoughts’ solve anything yet either but people still give them money. Also... ‘presidents’... you are a moronscruffics
- Well, having a vaccine in under a year considering otherwise it would take 5...