50 Of The Best Covid Vaccine Memes So Far
On Monday, Pfizer announced that early analysis of the coronavirus vaccine it has been developing with BioNTech suggested the vaccine was a success. A promising development considering the pandemic has already killed roughly 1.3 million people.
Pfizer provided only sparse details from its clinical trial but said the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventing the disease among volunteers who had no evidence of prior coronavirus infection. If the results hold up, that level of protection would put it on par with highly effective childhood vaccines for diseases such as measles. No serious safety concerns have been observed, the company said.
The good news prompted an avalanche of memes, celebrating the vaccine. Without wasting a second, Bored Panda selected some of the best ones to commemorate the occasion, so continue scrolling and enjoy.
This post may include affiliate links.
Iris Gorfinkel, M.D., who is a general practitioner, medical researcher, and founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research, said she is excited about the numbers. But she is also cautious. "We want to see the actual numbers, we want to see the real data on this. Right now, they have not reached the statistical significance needed for that vaccine," Gorfinkel told Bored Panda. "Also, they have not shared and been completely transparent so far with what the numbers are on side effects."
Another thing the doctor pointed out is that we still do not know how long the vaccine lasts. "That's a major issue with not just this product, but with all products, especially if it's being pushed through fast." Furthermore, what about the storage facility that the vaccine requires? Gorfinkel said almost no clinics have that. "We don't have the storage facilities to keep this vaccine at minus 70 degrees. It may work in a research setting. But I'm a vaccine researcher, and I don't even have that $15,000 refrigeration system."
Gorfinkel stressed that we need systems that are telling us at all times who has received what vaccination, when and where it was given, and with what product. "Right now we lack centralized tracking systems. And this leads to vaccine wastage and an inability to divert vaccine supplies to where they're most needed," she explained.
A simple solution to this problem is barcoding. "Walmart's a great example. It has literally millions of products and over 400 stores in Canada. So there's no reason why this same technology is not applied to vaccines. Every Canadian should have a unique barcode that could be scanned right along with a barcode which is already existing on every vial of vaccine that we give."
"Instantly, those two little blips would automatically populate the patient's own electronic health record, local public health unit records, and also a provincial or territorial vaccine registry ... That the last record, the vaccine registry, would allow patients a private portal to see what vaccine was provided and when, and could also serve as a platform in which patients could be emailed about specific issues with a vaccine. That includes recalls, newly discovered side effects, the potential reminders for boosters, and how long-lasting the vaccine is discovered to be."
Clinicians could also gain access to the vaccine registry to see who has had what product and when, Gorginkel said, and ministries of health could be empowered to divert potentially limited supplies of vaccines to outbreaks.
"It's not just one vaccine. Ultimately, we're talking about probably a whole group of vaccines, each with its own unique safety and efficacy profile, each with its own unique vaccine schedule of how it needs to be given how frequently it's going to get really complicated," the doctor added. "These complex issues will arise and we need to have that information at our fingertips."
Ah yes, being from the UK I can say I miss the old Reliant fields with the Scimitars standing proud and the Robins swaying in the breeze as the kittens gently rev in the trees
In a way we all contributed, especially the covidiots who made it imperative that scientists found the cure so they worked double time to save us from ourselves
Ditto what @Soap said> THIS IS NOT A CURE IT IS A POSSIBLE PREVENTIVE/PALLIATIVE. THat IS IT. And that's if it works as promised (as a miracle)...
I think that their next project should be a cure for stupidity, preferably in the form of tea
"Of course they deny. Just like everyone is denying that I won the elections. But I won the elections, by a lot. A tremendous bigly lot and there's voter fraud all over the place, I know that because no one knows more about fraud than I do. "
I'm going to order the Deluxe version that comes with the maps, lunchbox, bobbleheads and free DLC's for a year.
Well ''Alexia say which company will make a vaccine'' She'll say it and i'll send it to them by voicemail...I'm so smart :)
Would calling Pfizer "The Company that made Viagra" count?
We're laughing now - but this is exactly what will be called for when the Russian vaccine causes the zombie apocalypse.. ;)
Somebody tell me what the rapidly spinning thing is. It looks like Speak & Spell and Simon Says had a toy child.
And now you get a new job: Planning vaccinations for over 300 million people while having to deal with anti-vaxxers, identity-chip conspiracy theorists and 5G radiation fools. Good luck.
Which means that by taking the vaccine, you have 90% chance of not having to test your luck against the COVID-19 mortality odds. Yay!
Note: this post originally had 59 images. Itâs been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I know it's stupid to say, I know, but deep in my heart I hope there will be an anti vax movement against the covid vaccine, and that therefore there will be enough for my parents without them having to fight for it.
Aww that isnt horrible at all. ⤠we are all hoping that there will be enough for everyone expically the elderly, sick, and people with medical conditions like my brother.
I rarely agree with @JayLoren, but... Yeah. This is a disaster in the making. Pfizer hasn't released enough data for us to know (of course), but from inside the medical community, I can say this: We're not betting lives on this vaccine. If all else about it is perfect as claimed? It still has to be stored at -70*C. That is a freezer few facilities have, and outside maybe NYC/London-sized cities, hospitals won't be able to afford *one* such freezer, let alone *several*, to store required numbers of doses WHEN they are available (maybe 2022) for the average person. Memes aren't appropriate here. Suspicion and caution, yes. Peace, and please, WASH, MASK, DISTANCE. The VIRUS is not a hoax. Cure and vaccine claims... possibly are. Peace. Safety. And peace.
A little skepticism is never wrong. Yes, there are some hurdles like the -70°C ( -94°F) transportation and storage temperature. But when given the choice between a 90% effective vaccine and totally nothing else, the choice is simple. Should we wait for a 100% effective vaccination when worldwide per day over 5000 people are dying? Desperate times call for desperate measures. No it isn't ideal, but at this moment it just will have to do.
-70C transport is solved with dry ice. Iâve never worked in a lab that didnât have a -80C freezer but it sounds like hospitals are different?
I agree, WilvanderHeijden.
Can we not just celebrate the the scientists have created this, maybe not perfect, vaccine. It's better than having nothing at all. It's not their fault that logistics are tricky and freezers are expensive...that's someone else's job to sort out
I do celebrate their hard work... but I work on the end where we have to figure out how to save the lives and do logistics, and while Pfizer makes money, its scientists won't, and medical personnel have a lot to deal with. We already have people wanting a waiting list for a vaccine that's technically not even available yet.
I'm not talking about waiting for 100% effciient vaccine. I'm talking one we can actually get to people efficiently, b/c if the vaccine is great, what does it matter if you don't have *access*? We don't all have national health care working in a coordinated manner, alas! Thus, no guarantees on access in the US, for example. Also, the first doses won't go to us unless we're front-line healthcare, elderly in nursing homes, military... Assuming all is as it is. And other vaccines are taking a similar approach but may be less fragile, ergo less expensive. Just putting it out there. Your choice, your call, like I said, peaec out.
Downvoted. For not finding humor in this vaccine. I'm good with that!
I don't have a problem with any of your points, Leo Domitrix. At least you're civil with your statements, unlike how Jay Loren tends to be with their comments. I don't find humor in the vaccine itself, but I find memes in general to be humorous, and I don't mind being amused by them in a benign way.
@Ms M, my covid-related humor died around June 2020. Freely admitted.
I understand your loss of humor in this regard. I have major depressive disorder, and one of my coping mechanisms is to sometimes overcompensate with jokes. It's all good đ
How do you know thatâs why they downvoted you? For all you know they downvoted because they disagreed or they werenât interested in your take. You just assumed it was because you didnât find humor in the vaccine. Thatâs why I downvoted this comment. Itâs complaining but yet attributing that complaint to something youâre proud of, which is transparent and cheesy. I downvoted your original comment because I donât think it paints a clear picture of what the actual problems are. You didnât seem like you actually knew but you still spoke like you did. Downvote material for me. The only other person here who shares your take, Jay Loren, is a known Trump conspiracy theorist and he got like -20 for saying he didnât trust big pharma and that it isnât funny to make memes of it. Thatâs the company youâre keeping.
So what happens to the vaccine when it hits my 98.6°F body? Just saying!
Talk about "freeze brain!"
So, what happens to my veins when hit with -94°F vaccine?
And to think that COVID-19 is only one of "An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planetâenough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over." [Source: National Geographic] Only a tiny fraction of these are capable of passing from other animal species into humans (zoonotic transfer) but that still leaves a multitude of possibilities. We should never be complacent when it comes to new viruses and their potential to become and epidemic and ultimately a pandemic. Let's hope we have all learnt a lesson from our present predicament...
#6 should be deleted
Meh yes
Yo isn't this vaccine only for people at high risk?? and also older people?? like this doesn't make sense???
The people firs t to get it would be the high-risk and elderly. It'd be a while for the rest of us.
Doesnât have to be. In my country they are considering vaccinating younger people first, because they donât follow simple rules and are super spreaders, infecting parents and grandparents, who are at a higher risk.
I know it's stupid to say, I know, but deep in my heart I hope there will be an anti vax movement against the covid vaccine, and that therefore there will be enough for my parents without them having to fight for it.
Aww that isnt horrible at all. ⤠we are all hoping that there will be enough for everyone expically the elderly, sick, and people with medical conditions like my brother.
I rarely agree with @JayLoren, but... Yeah. This is a disaster in the making. Pfizer hasn't released enough data for us to know (of course), but from inside the medical community, I can say this: We're not betting lives on this vaccine. If all else about it is perfect as claimed? It still has to be stored at -70*C. That is a freezer few facilities have, and outside maybe NYC/London-sized cities, hospitals won't be able to afford *one* such freezer, let alone *several*, to store required numbers of doses WHEN they are available (maybe 2022) for the average person. Memes aren't appropriate here. Suspicion and caution, yes. Peace, and please, WASH, MASK, DISTANCE. The VIRUS is not a hoax. Cure and vaccine claims... possibly are. Peace. Safety. And peace.
A little skepticism is never wrong. Yes, there are some hurdles like the -70°C ( -94°F) transportation and storage temperature. But when given the choice between a 90% effective vaccine and totally nothing else, the choice is simple. Should we wait for a 100% effective vaccination when worldwide per day over 5000 people are dying? Desperate times call for desperate measures. No it isn't ideal, but at this moment it just will have to do.
-70C transport is solved with dry ice. Iâve never worked in a lab that didnât have a -80C freezer but it sounds like hospitals are different?
I agree, WilvanderHeijden.
Can we not just celebrate the the scientists have created this, maybe not perfect, vaccine. It's better than having nothing at all. It's not their fault that logistics are tricky and freezers are expensive...that's someone else's job to sort out
I do celebrate their hard work... but I work on the end where we have to figure out how to save the lives and do logistics, and while Pfizer makes money, its scientists won't, and medical personnel have a lot to deal with. We already have people wanting a waiting list for a vaccine that's technically not even available yet.
I'm not talking about waiting for 100% effciient vaccine. I'm talking one we can actually get to people efficiently, b/c if the vaccine is great, what does it matter if you don't have *access*? We don't all have national health care working in a coordinated manner, alas! Thus, no guarantees on access in the US, for example. Also, the first doses won't go to us unless we're front-line healthcare, elderly in nursing homes, military... Assuming all is as it is. And other vaccines are taking a similar approach but may be less fragile, ergo less expensive. Just putting it out there. Your choice, your call, like I said, peaec out.
Downvoted. For not finding humor in this vaccine. I'm good with that!
I don't have a problem with any of your points, Leo Domitrix. At least you're civil with your statements, unlike how Jay Loren tends to be with their comments. I don't find humor in the vaccine itself, but I find memes in general to be humorous, and I don't mind being amused by them in a benign way.
@Ms M, my covid-related humor died around June 2020. Freely admitted.
I understand your loss of humor in this regard. I have major depressive disorder, and one of my coping mechanisms is to sometimes overcompensate with jokes. It's all good đ
How do you know thatâs why they downvoted you? For all you know they downvoted because they disagreed or they werenât interested in your take. You just assumed it was because you didnât find humor in the vaccine. Thatâs why I downvoted this comment. Itâs complaining but yet attributing that complaint to something youâre proud of, which is transparent and cheesy. I downvoted your original comment because I donât think it paints a clear picture of what the actual problems are. You didnât seem like you actually knew but you still spoke like you did. Downvote material for me. The only other person here who shares your take, Jay Loren, is a known Trump conspiracy theorist and he got like -20 for saying he didnât trust big pharma and that it isnât funny to make memes of it. Thatâs the company youâre keeping.
So what happens to the vaccine when it hits my 98.6°F body? Just saying!
Talk about "freeze brain!"
So, what happens to my veins when hit with -94°F vaccine?
And to think that COVID-19 is only one of "An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planetâenough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over." [Source: National Geographic] Only a tiny fraction of these are capable of passing from other animal species into humans (zoonotic transfer) but that still leaves a multitude of possibilities. We should never be complacent when it comes to new viruses and their potential to become and epidemic and ultimately a pandemic. Let's hope we have all learnt a lesson from our present predicament...
#6 should be deleted
Meh yes
Yo isn't this vaccine only for people at high risk?? and also older people?? like this doesn't make sense???
The people firs t to get it would be the high-risk and elderly. It'd be a while for the rest of us.
Doesnât have to be. In my country they are considering vaccinating younger people first, because they donât follow simple rules and are super spreaders, infecting parents and grandparents, who are at a higher risk.