A Free Covid-19 Vaccine Available?

 

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Has mankind ever worked together to explicitly help all human beings? No. Would you like to see, in your lifetime, one such precedent?  Yes. Such a historic moment is at hand! A worldwide cooperative effort to come up with an effective, inexpensive Covid-19 vaccine, at the earliest time possible, to be administered to ALL human beings for FREE! Is this a pipe dream? Let's see a cost estimate. Here is a cost estimate: The US has ordered 100 million doses of a vaccine from Pfizer that works out to be about $40 per person. At this price, the cost for the 7.8 billion people in the world is $312 billion - only 1/10 of the cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  China, the European Union, Japan, Russia, England and other nations will each want to bear a significant share of that cost. The 2000+ billionaires in the world, with a total net worth of $8 trillion will want to help. If they contribute 1/100 of their net worth, it'll be $80 billion dollars. Even I, a retired professor, will want to donate at least $400 - 10 times the cost of 1 complete dose. Millions of other individuals will likely do more. So COST IS NOT A PROBLEM, even supposing the cost per dose doesn't come down later. Three Problems Remain, however. Problem 1: The protective duration a Covid-19 vaccine may be too short - only 3 to 12 months-, according to Dr. Fauci's guesstimate . Problem 2: The most highly touted US Vaccines are recently known to require ultra low temperatures for storage. Such small technological problems are likely to be encountered by most, if not all, vaccines currently being developed anywhere in the world. Such problems, including drastically increasing the protective duration, can be solved much faster with a worldwide cooperative effort. Problem 3: The toughest problem is that we lack statesmen who will ENVISION this godsend opportunity hidden behind the awful virus attack. The attack is without regard to national borders, race, religion and gender. It has caused 24 million illnesses or injuries, 800,000 deaths, besides wrecking the world's economy. Therefore, it is an ideal time to call for all nations, all races, all religions to work together to repel this attack QUICKLY. Pitch in to wake up our political leaders 80-20 has called on YOU to contact the political VIPs you know, to consider the following idea:

For the Presidents of the U.S. and China to jointly call for the renewal of global free and open exchange of scientific information, focusing on distributing an effective & inexpensive vaccine against Covid-19 at the earliest possible date that is FREE to the world.

A US Senator has promised me, 14 days ago, to pass the above idea to Biden's campaign foreign policy leadership team.  BTW, here is another reason why we are running a "DUMP TRUMP" campaign. His "America First" campaign is the anti-thesis to the idea for all mankind working together to repel this Covid-19 attack QUICKLY!!! Trump's narrow nationalistic outlook, at least in the matter of finding the best vaccine QUICKLY, hurts all mankind, including Americans. PASS This Message on! To post, click here.   Donate  S. B. Woo President and a volunteer for the past 20 years 80-20 Asian American Empowerment PAC, http://www.80-20superpac.org/ Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)

Dump Trump or Support Biden/Harris?

 

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"Dump Trump" Is Better Than "Support Biden" for 2 Reasons  Reason (1): Biden didn't miss a sentence or a word in his acceptance speech. Great. We hope that he'll continue that way. However, as Biden comes out of his basement to engage in hand-to-hand combat with Trump, he may unfortunately weaken. If he does, the "Support Biden" campaign may lose steam. In contrast, the "Dump Trump" will gain steam. Scientifically, a push-pull campaign to get rid of Trump - our only goal - is better than a simple pull Biden in campaign. In addition, polls revealed that the "Dump Trump" campaign generates more emotion from voters and will therefore induce a higher voter turnout.  Reason (2): Biden has NOT as yet given us a written promise on how he'll help AsAms gain equal opportunity, except in generalities which don't mean a thing if and when he gets into the White House.  So spread the "Dump Trump" campaign! A Word to AsAm Elected Dem. Officials - Fight for us when appropriate! We understand that you need to adhere to protocol of the Democratic Party. You must support the party nominee. You need to fundraise for Biden/Harris. Fine, we have no quarrel with you for all of the above that you need to do. However, since you mostly raise your money from the AsAm. community, you might want to ALWAYS volunteer your service to advance EQUAL opportunity for AsAms in appropriate occasions. AsAm adults face the lowest glass ceiling in workplaces. AsAm children face the highest barriers in college admission.  When your party's nominee asks you to help raise money, it is customary that you, as AsAm individuals or as an AsAm Caucus, ask for commitments from the nominee to help the AsAm community back. Have you done that?  DO IT to create a win-win-win! If Biden commits, we'll donate more to Biden, AsAm adults and children will benefit, we'll respect & support you more.  An Advice for Andrew Yang - try to REPAY our community You raised a lot of money from our community largely owing to the political immaturity of Chinese Ams who believed that you could win. 80-20 knew that you didn't have a ghost of a chance to have a decent showing in the first 2 primaries which are the Iowa Caucus (your 6th place finish) and the NH Primary (8th), much less winning the nomination*. However, we didn't want to rain on your parade. We also harbor high hopes for you in the long future - you showed courage to run and displayed some skills by lasting into the last Democratic presidential debate. You did it mostly on the back of Chinese Am. money, but that is OK. Frankly, I won my Lt. Governor race in DE largely on the back of Ch-Am money also. However, after you left the campaign trail, you began to disappoint us. We've not seen any effort on your part to REPAY our community for the more than $10 million you've raised from Chinese Ams. You seem to view us as suckers to provide money freely to help build your political career forever. It does NOT work that way, Andrew. It's time that you need to REPAY, and then you can draw on us again. Heed our advice please. 80-20 sacrifices itself to tell you the political truth! 80-20 wants to break the cycle of AsAm politicians using the political immaturity of our community to just shine their own political careers WITHOUT repaying our community. Forward. To post, click here.   Donate  S. B. Woo President and a volunteer for the past 21 years 80-20 Asian American Empowerment PAC, http://www.80-20superpac.org/ Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89) * Andrew Yang received a total of 10,076 votes from IA and NH. He spent $41 million to get those votes. It came to about $4,000 per vote.

Progress On Many Fronts

 

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Progress On Many Fronts 1) Dump Trump Remember our e-newsletter: "WeChat and TikTok are only visible collateral damage"? It points out that IMPLICITLY we are at risk to lose our equal opportunity in career advancement and college admissions more and more so long as Trump fans xenophobic sentiment. So we must "Dump Trump". A group in San Diego, CA wrote to join our campaign and get pointers but wanted to focus on local effort only. That is the best kind of joint struggle. We welcome all. 2) Beat Covid-19 with a Worldwide Effort Two weeks ago, 80-20 launched a noble & yet practical alternative to displace Trump's clueless "American First" effort to fight Covid-19. 80-20 called "for the Presidents of the U.S. and China to jointly call for the renewal of global free and open exchange of scientific information, focusing on distributing an effective & inexpensive vaccine against Covid-19  at the earliest possible date that is FREE to the world." Shortly after this e-newsletter was posted, Prof. Chenming Hu, a retired Chaired Professor of UC Berkeley, donated $2,500 to 80-20 with the following words about our noble alternative to fight Covid-19: "SB, Thanks. You have a unique shot to change history. Heavens save us. Chenming" With trepidation, I wrote 4 political VIPs, whom I know well, hoping to interest them but expecting rejection. One reply was exceptionally positive and strong. 80-20's suggestion is being advanced to the Biden campaign foreign policy leadership team. Its chance of adoption may still be remote, but good ideas are good ideas. The world can use it. Wait till Jan. 20, 2021, when Trump will be gone, IF Covid-19 is still raging & IF an effective vaccine is not in sight anywhere in the world, then statesmen of the world may be rushing in to embrace 80-20's idea. 3) Breaking News: "Justice Department accuses Yale of illegal bias against White, Asian American applicants in admissions". Click here. As you know, "Students For Fair Admissions", referenced in the article, is the organization leading this fight. 80-20 EF has donated $10,000 per yr. for the last 4 yrs to it. 4) A $5,000 check to Support Sarah Gideon for US Senate in Maine. Kwok Yeung, Falmouth, ME is Chair of our Maine State Committee. He donated $2,000 of the $5,000.

See how many fronts 80-20 is involved in to help defend your interest? Pitch in please. Collectively, we'll make bigger progress and faster. Forward. To post, click here.   Donate  S. B. Woo President and a volunteer for the past 20 years 80-20 Asian American Empowerment PAC, http://www.80-20superpac.org/ Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1985-89)