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2020-11-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Army Staff officer In Charge Of Vaccine Distribution Sez All Americans Must Be Vaccinated Within 24 Hours Of Emergency Use Authorization…
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-19 07:21|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 That mo-fo can pound sand and anything else one can pound.
Posted by Clem 2020-11-19 08:11||   2020-11-19 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 As if there will be 320 million doses of vaccine available, even in the hellscape he imagines in which he has authority to do that.
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-11-19 08:23||   2020-11-19 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 ... or else what? You gonna have Lt. Col. Flounder Vindman sit on me or something?
Posted by Raj 2020-11-19 08:40||   2020-11-19 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Whew...and imagine the inevitable "explosion" from Vindman...cruel and unusual. Chilling!
Posted by Clem 2020-11-19 08:58||   2020-11-19 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Fuck you
Posted by DarthVader 2020-11-19 09:41||   2020-11-19 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Roaring off to oblivion. Able to make snap decisions without any room for thought.
Go Army !!!
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-11-19 10:30||   2020-11-19 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Wow, the number of people out there talking me out of things I used to believe in because the only argument is "Or else."

I do have to ask. Does this include New York?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-11-19 10:43||   2020-11-19 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 There's not enough capacity for that.

And WHY such a rush?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-11-19 11:05||   2020-11-19 11:05|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Jiling Gravitch9209 v 2020-11-19 11:44||   2020-11-19 11:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't even think about messing w Jiling Gravitch
Posted by Slolunter Glusoth7083 2020-11-19 12:00||   2020-11-19 12:00|| Front Page Top

#11 In charge of distribution yet totally clueless on the logistics of what he's talking about.

Even if everyone wanted a vaccine and could take the day off and you got the vaccine distributed to every county in the US you'd still never get the population vaccinated in one day.

Maybe if you mailed a dose to everyone, no doses got lost, and everyone waited until some signal on the tv... but that's just fantasy on so many levels.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-19 12:14||   2020-11-19 12:14|| Front Page Top

#12 In charge of distribution yet totally clueless on the logistics of what he's talking about.

One would expect an actual Army Army guy to be somewhat kinda sort aware of logistics based on that "Amateurs talk tactics, Pros talk logistics" thingie. I'm seeing a warning light here on the console...
Posted by SteveS 2020-11-19 12:37||   2020-11-19 12:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Some of the commenters have more rational explanations for this. Naturally, the media will take it out of context and shape it to their narrative.
Posted by Bobby 2020-11-19 12:57||   2020-11-19 12:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Good catch, Bobby!
I find I generally don't pay a lot of attention to comments on other blogs due to the signal to noise ratio. Rantburg has spoiled me.
Posted by SteveS 2020-11-19 13:14||   2020-11-19 13:14|| Front Page Top

#15 I searched my usual sources, and the below is the only thing I can find about the vaccine:


Pfizer CEO: Once FDA Approves Vaccine, It Will Be Shipped Overnight

[DailyWire] According to the CEO of Pfizer, the company that recently announced that its vaccine proved over 90% effective at protecting humans from COVID-19, once the vaccine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration it will be shipped in the United States to most places overnight.

Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Online Summit on Tuesday, CEO Albert Bourla spoke of the vaccine, which must be stored in vials between -94F and -112F. He started by explaining about the boxes in which the vaccine will be shipped: “Those boxes are isothermic boxes that have a GPS and also a tempo meter so we know at any point where the box is and what is the temperature so if something goes wrong, which we don’t anticipate, we will not use the vaccine. Every box is a small box like that and can take 1,000 to 5,000 doses. And when we ship it, we don’t need to use refrigeration. So we can ship it in cars, trucks, planes, boats, whatever. In the US, we will ship to most of the places overnight.”

“So once we receive an address from the government, the next day the product will be there,” he continued. “And once people receive it they can keep it for weeks in the box or they can keep it for months in their freezers or they can put it in refrigeration and keep it for a week, approximately. I think that the demand will be so big, it’s going to be injected in hours rather than days or weeks. So we feel very confident about it.”
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-19 13:41||   2020-11-19 13:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Correction: Epoch Times has an even better report, with a photo of the general in question.

First Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine to Be Available Within 24 Hours of FDA Green Light: Trump Admin

General Gustave Perna delivers an update on "Operation Warp Speed" in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 13, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump administration health officials on Wednesday told reporters that every state across the country will have access to some doses of a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine within 24 hours of proper authorization.

“Every jurisdiction will have access immediately upon the initial push of the vaccine,” Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, said during a call with reporters.

He was reiterating what he said at a White House press conference about Operation Warp Speed on Nov. 13.

“Today, we expect to have tens of millions of doses immediately following emergency use authorization (EUA), and we will distribute them as soon as the FDA applies the EUA. We will do that within 24 hours of the EUA,” Perna said.

Perna told reporters, “What is Operation Warp Speed about? It is about saving lives, and it is a herculean task that the President put us on many months ago. And as Dr. Slaoui just laid out, we are making steady progress and we are ready to execute.”

Perna continued, “Six months ago, the capacity did not exist in our nation’s pharmaceutical production base. We went to work building brick and mortar manufacturing facilities, bringing in the right specialized machinery, and prioritizing supply-chain materials through the Defense Production Act.”

Perna said getting the vaccine out this fast could only be done because of collaboration between public and private stakeholders.

“It is the partnerships we have formed with the pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna; distribution companies like McKesson, FedEx, and UPS; and pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens that have agreed to do things differently.”
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-19 14:05||   2020-11-19 14:05|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ compare this professional, serious, military logistics expert with the ghoulish clowns like Zeke Emmanuel that the Democrats have trotted out. What a disgrace
Posted by Spinelet Schwarzeneggar3240 2020-11-19 14:37||   2020-11-19 14:37|| Front Page Top

#18 #11, me, judged by the title which doesn't appear to be what the guy said as far as I can tell.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-19 14:54||   2020-11-19 14:54|| Front Page Top

#19 He does say all Americans must be vaccinated in the video but it sounds to me as if he misspoke.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-19 14:59||   2020-11-19 14:59|| Front Page Top

#20  but it sounds to me as if he misspoke.

I imagine he meant may, i.e. can be, rather than must, since it will keep in the shipping boxes for months if stored in a freezer.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-19 20:12||   2020-11-19 20:12|| Front Page Top

#21 Hee hee, hee hee (Peter Lorre voice):

Posted by Clem 2020-11-19 21:24||   2020-11-19 21:24|| Front Page Top

#22 Re #16: Thanks TW. That makes a lot more sense. One line second had tweets do not make policy.
Posted by One Eyed Snusoper4309 2020-11-19 21:37||   2020-11-19 21:37|| Front Page Top

#23 “Those boxes are isothermic boxes that have a GPS and also a tempo meter so we know at any point where the box is and what is the temperature so if something goes wrong, which we don’t anticipate, we will not use the vaccine.

So not more complicated than shipping insulin in a styrofoam box w/ a cooling pack, w/ added GPS tracker.
Posted by One Eyed Snusoper4309 2020-11-19 21:43||   2020-11-19 21:43|| Front Page Top

#24 The general addresses objections:
"According to expert projections,
One day, plus the early
And absentee, surely
Suffices. And folks, these injections
Are as safe and secure as elections!"
Posted by Large Snore6664 2020-11-19 22:38||   2020-11-19 22:38|| Front Page Top

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