OPERATION “Warp Speed” as announced by President Trump in relation to vaccine development sounds great but it’s wrong.
Warp speed is not possible despite what Star Trek promises and is fictional, a concept that seems to apply to many of the President’s announcements.
The use of warp speed refers to how fast and thus how far you can travel not to the development of anything.
I am sure a number of people would like to see Mr. Trump travel for even one second at warp speed. It would be an out-of-this-world experience and he would be most of the way to the moon.
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Is there a silver bullet solution?
With the Lone Ranger, it used to be “Who was that masked man?”.
Now with the lone walker, it’s “Who’s that unmasked man?”
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Learning?
I read in a local newspaper (Victoria, Australia) that 97 percentt of students were learning at home.
This should have realistically read 97 percent of students were at home. They were not all learning or even studying.
I doubt that any teacher, even in the best of classes, could claim that only one in 30 students wasn’t learning or even paying attention. I wouldn’t make that claim myself as a retired teacher.
Perhaps the best answer is to close all schools and only have home schooling as the parents know everything about teaching and are so good at it.
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You’re fired, hopefully
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is being treated by the world’s leading medical experts and being mistreated by the world’s leading non-medical expert President Trump. Surely the world should follow the advice of medical experts although in the social media environment we are being misled.
Donald Trump has apparently stated that he is taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible protection against coronavirus even though there are warning of possible serious, even fatal side effects.
A proper Food and Drug Administration-approved medical treatment is researched, tested and checked for side effects long before it is available on the shelves. This is a proper treatment for malaria but as of the moment there is no proof that it works for COVID-19 although some initial testing is being undertaken.
Please do not trust the internet for medical advice unless it is an official site.
This is not even the worst Trump medical proclamation as that comes from his son Eric who is describing the epidemic as a political smoke screen to prevent his father from campaigning in the manner that he considers the best approach, large crowds full of enthusiastic supporters.
None of the 90,000 people who have already died will get to vote for Trump nor anyone else. Eric’s suggestion that…and guess what, after Nov. 3, the coronavirus will magically… is offensive and simply wrong. Again, listen to medical experts and not businessmen and never reality television personalities.
There is never enough ways to repeat the message – listen to medical experts, not politicians, and do have the vaccination when it becomes available. (dfitzger@melbpc.org.au/PN)
