Hey, Catherine.

Hey, what's up?

So quick update to yesterday.

I saw that yesterday, Fauchy said that it is theoretically possible that we could have hundreds

of millions of vaccine doses by January.

It's very easy to say theoretically possible. I don't think he's off base there because he's saying you know we'll have these sequences of the virus.

We will have injected them into people. We will have tested those people and if they all look perfect and healthy without

complications and we have all of the private partnerships with companies that will produce this, then yes.

I just don't, I'm curious why I get the public's hope up with something like that right now.

Yeah, I mean yesterday we were saying 18 months is probably unrealistic. Yeah, but that's been kind of a theme, right? We keep hearing these, you know, remember we talked about we're supposed to have a website from Google that would tell us exactly where to go to get tested at drive-through testing clinics.

The administration has been driving the news cycle by making claims about the future and what it plans to do.

Right. And I'm losing faith, although, yeah. I'm hopeful, sure. It's not theoretically impossible, no.

Well, you can caveat all you want. I'm going to say, I would be shocked of January happens, so I'm not changing my feelings about it. So don't change your

feelings for anything. No my feelings are valid. Your feelings are yours.

Feelings not facts. Right?

I think that's what they say.

Okay, so today we're actually we got a question from a listener that is something that's been

floating around a lot and I'm actually quite curious about as well.

Ted writes in recent weeks there have been a lot of stories about COVID-19 that look at HIV

as a kind of older sister narrative.

For the most part, I have hated these stories

because they treat HIV like a past plague

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