On soft power, that is a binary or tertiary concern. We funded Pfizer & Moderna, and I don't see the soft power advantage you have suggested. Nobody in the world (I have observed) is saying, "Yeah Afghan is a massacre, but those Yank sons a bitches sure got everyone beat on Covid!! That, is another separate discussion in my oppy. Your mole biologist brother is of course correct. Having said that, we probably cannot vax every soul on earth, so hence my statement on switching focus to treatment & cure. If your buddy Joe has no problem with "human infrastructure," to the tune of 3.5 trillion, then why not (If it is not already being pursued) would be meds that are non-damaging, and have the virtue of stopping deaths from the mutations.
I am a bigger spender than old Joe and would happily throw vastly more cash at R&D in specialized areas like medical solutions, AI, energy, and climate, and also resource production, space, etc. I'd be looking for big ROI, but we know I am simply a mouthy peasant, with no cash to throw at out politician$. -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Crowell <goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> To: Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 4, 2021 6:16 pm Subject: Re: NYTimes.com: White House Seeks $65 Billion for ‘Apollo’ Plan to Prepare for Future Pandemics On Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 2:11:31 PM UTC-5 spudb...@aol.com wrote: >From what my B' in law told me the other day (retired physician) we'll have to >vax the world to succeed. Well DUH?! That though is the sort of soft power that can raise the prestige of the US. Thought- This highlights the need for medicines that end the virus's damage via cytokine storms, as a treatment, a cure, rather than a prevention. My brother as a molecular biologist specializing in plant biology, worked on cell signaling and cytokines. It is a vastly complicated topic. As yet no cure for any viral infection has come of this. A global program of vaccines might eliminate Covid, or at least keep it down. LC -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com> To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <everyth...@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 4, 2021 7:43 am Subject: NYTimes.com: White House Seeks $65 Billion for ‘Apollo’ Plan to Prepare for Future Pandemics >From The New York Times: White House Seeks $65 Billion for ‘Apollo’ Plan to Prepare for Future Pandemics The plan calls for an initial investment of at least $15 billion — half of what President Biden initially proposed. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/health/biden-pandemic-preparedness-apollo.html?smid=em-share-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-li...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2pcSBbLyxZ1vSRTU8iEdvJfiUcb%2Biqj_BCKeseQLwW%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a9c89cce-dd35-4c2e-a0ef-f04b0c510ba5n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1720139543.2255507.1630848923916%40mail.yahoo.com.
