Picture of the Day: South Korea Develops Its Own Domestic COVID Vaccine
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and employees of SK Bioscience pose for a photo during a ceremony to mark the release of SKYCovione, the country’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, at the bio company in Andong, 191 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Sept. 2, 2022. (Yonhap)
What a great picture!
And they included its first user down at the bottom right.
…well the first surviving user.
Jokes aside…
These folks are a little late to the party.
The quiet part is this “vaccine” was made to protect against original Wuhan corona… which has been extinct for… years.
But in a positive note, this is the company I would look to if I wanted to be protected from grippe, lumbago, or St. Vitas’s dance.
As if on clue (which is just a coincidence I’m sure):
Korean news agencies are announcing the government’s strategy for the anticipated (meaning planned?) fall wave is to “activate” the 4th dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
So the Q of the day is: What does activate mean?
Offer?
Recommend?
Mandate (followed by tracking)?
“fall wave is to “activate” the 4th dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.”
That the one approved after being tested on eight mice?
Since MANY more people in my demographic have died from not looking both ways while crossing the street than from covid, I am more concerned with irreversable medical experiments than covid.
I really hope everything from here on out is voluntary.
I encourage everyone to get three or four boosters a year to stay Safe and Effective, whatever that means… but mandates are not really for me.
I will take my chances…
…for the same mathematical reasons I don’t buy lottery tickets.
On the plus side, since almost everyone vaccinated and boosted has caught covid over the last 6 month, I hear very little yapping about vaccines and boosters.
In fact, I am not sure I know anyone planning to get more shots… even the ones who wouldn’t shut up about it in the past.
So it will be interesting to see the government plan to use up all those expensive but unwanted boosters.
Stay Safe & Effective
According to the World Health Organization you need a vaccine for yellow fever in the DPRK but not the ROK.
If you get yellow fever in the DPRK, you may end up in a camp.
If you get yellow fever in the ROK, everybody blames the slut.
So it is for your own protection.