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by nate_meurer 2290 days ago
I think that's likely, but it's understandably difficult to convince anyone to spend a few hundred million dollars to develop vaccine that might never be used.
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Seems like a pretty good deal right now. Our economic system has structural pathologies that make it extremely difficult to meaningfully organize whole populations.
Yeah, ok, I think I agree with this. I have to believe that a sustained effort to develop coronavirus vaccines would bear fruit, whether actual vaccines or merely processes and knowledge, even if the particular motivating disease was no longer in circulation.