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Two problems with the ebola comparison:

One, most people who get COVID-19 recover from COVID-19, which proves humans are pretty good at producing countermeasures against COVID-19. If you can find something other than COVID-19 that induces the production of those same countermeasures, you've got your vaccine. Ebola on the other hand has a mortality rate of up to 90%. Even a vaccine a thousand times less dangerous than the Ebola its emulating would kill millions of Africans, so it's a harder task.

Two, as you say, Ebola only affects shithole countries. Remember when some idiot brought it to the United States and nothing happened? Eradicating Ebola would be nice, but the world isn't throwing everything at making that their number one priority.

3 years ago
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Two problems with the ebola comparison:

One, most people who get COVID-19 recover from COVID-19, which proves humans are pretty good at producing countermeasures against COVID-19. If you can find something other than COVID-19 that induces the production of those same countermeasures, you've got your vaccine. Ebola on the other hand has a mortality rate of up to 90%. Even a vaccine a thousand times less dangerous than the Ebola its emulating would kill millions of Africans, so it's a harder task.

Two, Ebola only affects shithole countries. Remember when some idiot brought it to the United States and nothing happened? Eradicating Ebola would be nice, but the world isn't throwing everything at making that their number one priority.

3 years ago
1 score