SOME INFORMED THOUGHTS: Covid-19 policy: Assertions and provocations. “Disease suppressionists want to stamp out community spread of the disease over the long term, but if their policy were implemented and successful in the United States there would be no chance for vaccine Phase 3 trials to read out on anything like the promised schedule. If the political support for disease suppression is in part predicated on the hope for a vaccine sooner than the usual 3-5 years, then disease suppression is an inherently self-defeating policy because it delays vaccine trials.”