The COVID-19 vaccines were invented and deployed with unprecedented speed. Civilization will only get better at inventing vaccines. I mean, can you plausibly imagine a worse response to COVID-19 than what we experienced in the West?
We gambled very high by not using well-understood technology to vaccinate but risky new technology. If the side effects wouldn’t just have been making half the people ill the next day, confidence in the overall vaccine effort could have been damaged a lot.
Russia shows how low confidence in the health system can lead to lower vaccination rates and it’s quite possible that confidence in our health system also goes down over time.
If we wouldn’t have governments that sue people for vaccinating their families but support those people to vaccinate more which we likely would have had 50 years ago, our response would have been much faster.
The case of lyme disease suggest to me that there’s a lot of official pressures to deny the harm that it causes in the chronic cases. There’s little money into understanding infectious diseases better.
We gambled very high by not using well-understood technology to vaccinate but risky new technology. If the side effects wouldn’t just have been making half the people ill the next day, confidence in the overall vaccine effort could have been damaged a lot.
Russia shows how low confidence in the health system can lead to lower vaccination rates and it’s quite possible that confidence in our health system also goes down over time.
If we wouldn’t have governments that sue people for vaccinating their families but support those people to vaccinate more which we likely would have had 50 years ago, our response would have been much faster.
The case of lyme disease suggest to me that there’s a lot of official pressures to deny the harm that it causes in the chronic cases. There’s little money into understanding infectious diseases better.