What makes it even sweeter is the target of the slap, Ted Cruz. What an ignorant wanker!
The tragedy of racism and bigotry and Cruz’s nationalism is that it routinely neglects the other human beings outside their own little in-group.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Of the four vaccines at the front (I do not count the Russian or the Chinese ones, as the testing for the latter was limited because of time constraints and the former is was driven by politics) I think America has been involved with one. Or is it two? There are networks of cooperation between several actors that makes it hard for me to keep up with the details.
You also have the option to inject bleach which is a uniquely American approach.
Toxic American parochialism, or as Americans call it American Exceptionism
So idiot Cruz wants to take credit, once more, for something he had absolutely nothing to do with and, in fact, is (hopefully) a preventative measure for something he doesn’t even believe is real.
Is he playing with his Canadian birth to imply Canada invented it as the only reason they are distributing it before us?
Is he going withtRump’s claim that we invented it and Pfizer only manufacturing it for us?
Crude (Cruz) is completely scrambled comprehensible.
Still don’t understand how he went over to tRump after all the insults the kandydate tRump threw at them.
“just wondering” is the neo form of J.A.Q
Did Ted have a reply to that? Did he apologize for being an idiot?
Well, that’s a little disappointing…. Deciphering this one wasn’t too much trouble, but it just says he wants more slaves for the afterlife. He really needs to come up with some new material.
Any link to this? I can’t find anything via web search.
robro @4: does the sun rise in the west?
Ted Cruz communicates entirely in dog whistles. Facts are irrelevant.
The stupidity of this is that American doctors, scientists and study participants have played an important role in developing the vaccine. American vaccine development and regulatory expertise has featured throughout.
Had Cruz wanted to acknowledge that significant American contribution as part of global efforts, rather than trying to claim the entire credit, then no-one would be complaining.
If only Cruz weren’t too stupid to be chastened.
No mention of the fact that the delivery method for the Pfizer vaccine was pioneered by a Vancouver company?
More like three of the leading ones.
The Moderna one, mRNA.
Novavax Subunit vaccine, S protein.
Johnson and Johnson Adenovirus vector, manufactured in Leiden, The Netherlands
One of the leading vaccines has run into trouble, the Sanofi one, French. This is not good news. Sanofi has a lot of depth and could manufacture at scale.
As many have noted, the world needs more than one vaccine and it needs them as soon as possible.
What a hypocrite. In two ways. First, Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta in Canada. So technically even though his parents are American, he is in essence an immigrant,
And second, for the first four years of his life and for the 9 months before he took advantage of Canada’s (at the time Alberta’s) socialized medicine.
To get all the antivaxxers to have the vaccine ,leak the news to a well respected news channel such as fox ,hahahahahahahahahahaha ,that them demonocrats are not going to let anyone who voted for the snatch snatcher ,or is a gun owner ,or a god botherer get the Covid vaccine ,result 100% take up .
I really should be running the world .
@#13, raven,
The world does need more than one candidate and in sufficient volumes, but is also worth noting that companies also often buy in manufacturing capacity from contract organisations. Some of that capacity may become available if some candidates drop out of contention. So I’m less worried about manufacturing at scale, because I think that reserved capacity will be rationalised and redeployed as the best candidate vaccines emerge.
And Sanofi will not be leaving gaps in their manufacturing schedules: they will turn over any capacity to other equally worthy vaccine/therapeutic molecules. We should all remember that whilst pharmaceuticals manufacturing is focused on COVID products, that means it isn’t being used for other life-saving/changing drugs.
“Did he apologize for being an idiot?”
That would take away all of crazy Cruz’s time that he steadily and continually uses to demonstrate that he is a raving idiot. Cruz is WAY too stupid to even recognize irony, hence his continual “both feet in mouth” diseased rantings.
Ted Cruz is such a great punching-bag.
And while we laugh at Ted Cruz, he keeps getting elected.
Marcus Ranum: “Ted Cruz is such a great punching-bag.”
You know, I’ve never tried, but I’d like to. Is there a waiting list I can sing up for?
truth does not mater what is most important is faith it is what you believe that rules the day ‘We make our own reality”
the basis of current right wing thinking.
uncle frogy
One can always count on Cruz to set himself up. As was mentioned, double foot in mouth disease.
While both feet are again firmly inside of his mouth, we should set up a ticket booth for folks to kick him in the ass. That could bring in more than enough money to cover ten times the first stimulus checks.
Taiwan is buying vaccines from multiple sources, including Pfizer, 15 million according to one report. We’re probably low on the ladder for receiving them.
At the same time, Taiwan’s Adimmune, United Biomedical, and Medigen are in stage two testing of their own, and a fourth company in stage one. Better too many choices than none at all, I guess. And it’s another thing to export this year.
robro (#5) –
It was a knee jerk reaction from a jerk living on his knees. It’s expected.
Once again, Ted is lying. He wasn’t asking out of curiosity at all, much less just so. He was asking because he’s a bullshit artist who engages in shallow rhetorical nonsense because he knows his supporters are shallow intellects who don’t care about substance or facts, only “zingers” and “pwning the libs.”
Robro @7:
First tweet: https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1337502004747378689
Ted’s response: https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1337845490248003587
March For Science: https://twitter.com/MarchForScience/status/1338185765721944065
What was even the point he was trying to make? What does it have to do with Canada providing the vaccine for free?
@rpjohnston:
Presumably the ‘point’ was that the U.S. developed the vaccine and Canada should be grateful for their ability to mooch off of the U.S. greatness. (Never mind that Canada had its own vaccine development in the works as well, it just wasn’t among the first to finish trials. And, yes, Canada’s purchase was for the Pfizer vaccine.)
We’ve got way too much U.S.-style idiocy up here already with people insisting they don’t need masks, that’s part of why some provinces have had really nasty second waves. The vaccine can’t come soon enough, even if I know I’m pretty low on the list of people receiving it. (Not over 65, not in health care, not an essential worker, able to work from home with no problems… I’m low on the list, and I’m perfectly fine with that.)
I think the “point” he thought he was cleverly making was that while Canadians may have their free soshulist medicine, it takes Capitalist Americans™ to create the medicine they’re giving away. So he probably still doesn’t see he got pwned.
Ted Cruz is obviously an idiot, but what bugs me more is the larger argument, which is being weaponised right now against the demand for patent waivers, namely that the companies need patents or they can’t finance the development of these high-tech vaccines and other pharma products. Pfizer/BioNTech, like most other vaccines out there, have financed the majority of development through public money (government grants):
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1656A/production/_115989419_vaccine_funding_2x640-nc.png
Consider signing the global petition for patent waivers and socially responsible licensing systems:
https://www.patents-kill.org/
Bernardo Soares@29–
It doesn’t undermine your argument, but strictly speaking Pfizer deliberately rejected government funding to avoid getting tangled in multinational bureaucratic demands. Having said that, Pfizer is not the sole agent here. BioNTech’s vaccine development work was largely funded by government money, mostly from Germany and the EU.
So Cruz is lying, as usual. The vaccine is not the sole providence of American capitalism, it’s the work of thousands of people from many different nations funded by many different governments and economic systems (including American capitalism). And those who developed the vaccine — scientists and public health specialists — are the sort of people he’s spent his whole political career doing his best to vilify and defund.
@19 Over here in good old GB ,we have a saying “People Would Vote for a Pig ,if it Was Wearing the Right Colour Rosette ”
Mainly said about tory bastard mp’s .