CalvinBall wrote:Has everyone applied for their mail-in ballot? I highly recommend you do! You have until the 25th to do so but it takes about 2 minutes. You get the ballot, fill it out and put it in the mail. It has to be RECEIVED by your county's voter service office by June 2 at 8 pm (not simply postmarked by that day).

https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/Onli ... enteeBegin

If you live in Delco or Chester County I would encourage you to support Carolyn Comitta or John Kane for State Senate (if either of those races are on your ballot).

Also, for anyone in PA I think Christina Hartman is a great choice for Auditor General. She is a smart woman who is incredibly capable.

If you have any questions about a candidate let me know! Would love to help provide insight.

Werthless wrote:It's nice that it can be done in the primaries and they can figure out any operational hiccups in a lower stakes and lower volume election.

Bucky wrote:i can't wait to get my mail-in ballot. gonna run it through the xerox and send in like 500 ballots

CalvinBall wrote:

Werthless wrote:It's nice that it can be done in the primaries and they can figure out any operational hiccups in a lower stakes and lower volume election.

Absolutely especially with this fall being a biggie.

traderdave wrote:Moncef Slaoui, the ex-head of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines division, has been tapped to lead President Donald Trump's "warp speed" effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine, two White House officials said Wednesday. The officials said four-star Army General Gustave Perna had also been selected to help oversee "Operation Warp Speed." Slaoui will act as the chief adviser and Perna will serve as the chief operating officer overseeing logistics.

The goal of Trump's "Operation Warp Speed" -- which may prove impossible to meet -- is to make 100 million doses of the vaccine available by November, 200 million doses by December and 300 million doses by January, a senior administration official has told CNN.

Five and one-half months for discovery, at least two stages of clinical trials, reporting and analysis of those trials, FDA approval, production, and commercialization. To provide a little context as to just how steep a mountain this is, I offer the following from the CDC's own website:

It takes at least six months to produce large quantities of influenza vaccine. For vaccine to be delivered in time for vaccination to begin in the fall, manufacturers may begin to grow one or more of the vaccine viruses in January based on their best guess as to what viruses are most likely to be included in the vaccine.

That is SIX MONTHS just to produce the flu vaccine for the estimated required doses for the coming flu season (169 million doses in for 2018-2019 flu season). Even under an accelerated FDA review process, those milestones appear to be impossible (save for enormous amounts of corner cutting).

Bucky wrote:i can't wait to get my mail-in ballot. gonna run it through the xerox and send in like 500 ballots

Bill McNeal wrote:My wife and I signed up to mail in vote and we got into a discussion about it and she said that she would prefer to go in person just for her preference so I said that it would be better for more people to mail in so as not to expose the poll workers to as much foot traffic since they are usually retired folks and more vulnerable. She said well why don’t we volunteer to work the polls this time around then so that maybe a retiree doesn’t have to expose themselves etc. so that’s what we are doing!

momadance wrote:

traderdave wrote:Moncef Slaoui, the ex-head of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines division, has been tapped to lead President Donald Trump's "warp speed" effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine, two White House officials said Wednesday. The officials said four-star Army General Gustave Perna had also been selected to help oversee "Operation Warp Speed." Slaoui will act as the chief adviser and Perna will serve as the chief operating officer overseeing logistics.

The goal of Trump's "Operation Warp Speed" -- which may prove impossible to meet -- is to make 100 million doses of the vaccine available by November, 200 million doses by December and 300 million doses by January, a senior administration official has told CNN.

Five and one-half months for discovery, at least two stages of clinical trials, reporting and analysis of those trials, FDA approval, production, and commercialization. To provide a little context as to just how steep a mountain this is, I offer the following from the CDC's own website:

It takes at least six months to produce large quantities of influenza vaccine. For vaccine to be delivered in time for vaccination to begin in the fall, manufacturers may begin to grow one or more of the vaccine viruses in January based on their best guess as to what viruses are most likely to be included in the vaccine.

That is SIX MONTHS just to produce the flu vaccine for the estimated required doses for the coming flu season (169 million doses in for 2018-2019 flu season). Even under an accelerated FDA review process, those milestones appear to be impossible (save for enormous amounts of corner cutting).

Just like every other "panel" he puts together they won't get shit done and you won't ever hear about it again in a month or two. How's that google website coming?

momadance wrote:Flynn judge is not letting this one go. He's contemplating charging him with contempt for perjuring himself with the guilty plea. Good thread on what happened today:

https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/sta ... 3081851904

traderdave wrote:Moncef Slaoui, the ex-head of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines division, has been tapped to lead President Donald Trump's "warp speed" effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine, two White House officials said Wednesday. The officials said four-star Army General Gustave Perna had also been selected to help oversee "Operation Warp Speed." Slaoui will act as the chief adviser and Perna will serve as the chief operating officer overseeing logistics.

The goal of Trump's "Operation Warp Speed" -- which may prove impossible to meet -- is to make 100 million doses of the vaccine available by November, 200 million doses by December and 300 million doses by January, a senior administration official has told CNN.

Five and one-half months for discovery, at least two stages of clinical trials, reporting and analysis of those trials, FDA approval, production, and commercialization. To provide a little context as to just how steep a mountain this is, I offer the following from the CDC's own website:

It takes at least six months to produce large quantities of influenza vaccine. For vaccine to be delivered in time for vaccination to begin in the fall, manufacturers may begin to grow one or more of the vaccine viruses in January based on their best guess as to what viruses are most likely to be included in the vaccine.

That is SIX MONTHS just to produce the flu vaccine for the estimated required doses for the coming flu season (169 million doses in for 2018-2019 flu season). Even under an accelerated FDA review process, those milestones appear to be impossible (save for enormous amounts of corner cutting).