[stavros]

Those bad boxes were checked for me too, but the realization it gave me that "wait, I can actually synthesize a vaccine myself" trumped the first two.

[colincooke]

Good point, could have been a great article if it took a more careful tone and just demonstrated how cool it is that the tech now exists to do this yourself (with sufficient means + skills), without adding the other negative elements/suggesting that folks should do this themselves.

[gus_massa]

You can synthetize a vaccine candidate yourself. The problem is to be sure that it creates enough immunity and that is safe enough.