a news outlet just reported brasil hit 400k deaths so this graph might be slightly outdated/underreported, let's go brasil! we're closing that gap quick! number one, number one! 🥳
in case it's not clear, this tweet is morbid satire.
if you use the per capita relative count instead, we're already #winning 🤩
meanwhile, my dad, who's 60, has diabetes & a heart bypass, is still not eligible for a vaccine. if you're rich and famous however it's ok, you can cut in line if you're not old enough to be eligible yet
my age group? i'm not going to see a vaccine until early 2022, *if* everything goes according to plan, which it never does. 🥰
oh, and once i do get a vaccine? it's going to be the sinovac one. not pfizer or astrazeneca or moderna, because we're not first world enough for those
so while it's nice to complain that 98% effectiveness it's not enough, the vaccine we have here is 75% effective and not even known outside the third world (have you heard of sinovac since vaccine development news came out?)
and another problem (...)
(...) is that because the sinovac vaccine is not a mRNA like the fancy first world ones, but rather an inactivated virus vaccine, immunodeficient people can't take it. so that's yet another ding in that 75% figure, and we likely will never have herd immunity.