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> need to get better at rapid vaccine creation.

What is stopping you from making a vaccine for COVID-19? I can promise you nobody will be upset with you if you do it, you don't need anyone's permission either.

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I don't think he's saying vaccine creation is easy, I think he's saying it's a hard problem that needs a concerted effort at developing shortcuts.

Also, this is technically true, but vacuous:

> What is stopping you from making a vaccine for COVID-19? I can promise you nobody will be upset with you if you do it, you don't need anyone's permission either.

Even if by some herculean effort and unbelievable luck, I brewed up a Covid-19 vaccine in my garage, I would be unable to help people at scale with it unless it passed millions of dollars worth of testing for regulatory approval.

Okay - so ... "we (as a species) need to get better at rapid vaccine creation. Like an order of magnitude better" ... and andyjohnson0 will do what exactly then to make this happen?

Generally, when someone makes statements like the one you're trying very hard to make fun of, the "we need to" means "our leaders should prioritize".

Not that hard to understand really.

Ah, so ... if andyjohnson0 is not part of the human species ... the heck is andyjohnson0?

Also if andyjohnson0 wants their "leaders" to do something ... I mean ... andyjohnson0 can vote no?

And are you suggesting "our leaders" are dragging their asses or something?

I think you are being needlessly antagonistic here. I think they were simply stating that we, collectively, would benefit from prioritizing vaccine development more than we currently do. Perhaps they felt stating that would in some way convince others that this is true and maybe more people would vote for it.

May I suggest you be more charitable in interpreting people here? I think you'll find conversations more productive.

I meant "we" in the collective sense. I think that was fairly obvious.

So what will you, as a part of "we", the collective, do exactly to make it happen?

Why are you being so obtuse? I'm not saying that every person should actively work on vaccine development. That would be absurd. I'm just asserting that finding ways to speed-up vaccine development should be an international priority.

I'd vote for politicians who support this. I'd happily pay more taxes to support it. I'd support the development of international institutions in this field. Is that good enough for you?

> I'd vote for politicians who support this. I'd happily pay more taxes to support it. I'd support the development of international institutions in this field. Is that good enough for you?

Have at it then, you could even donate to private research if the government won't come take your virus research money from you under threat of force. Enjoy!

Same thing I do for the courts and military: do my job and pay my taxes.

Already paying taxes and doing my job, done and dusted, so we are good. Next! Solving world problems are so simple.

This is massively harder than you expect. Vaccines need longer term testing because they can have serious side effects, including making you more vulnerable to the virus.

Great, so nothing andyjohnson0 can do ...

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