[willcipriano]

If the current state of Covid is not acceptable and it is determined that the disease needs to be eradicated, these vaccines aren't enough. We will have to start elimination of reservoir animal colonies near human civilization at a global scale. Go into bat habitats with flamethrowers. The vaccines are too leaky and another mutation in a animal population and we are back where we started.

Although, if it was a lab leak and we didn't have a animal population to worry about we could save a lot of animals. We could also accept that it's now endemic.

[ceejayoz]

It's a bit weird to jump to "flamethrowers in the jungle" instead of "second-generation vaccines", isn't it?

It's definitely able to get into animals. That's been known since nearly the beginning; quite a few zoos lost animals to it. Lab leak or not doesn't really change that calculus at all.

[willcipriano]

I mean, we sorta went right to "lock down the entire economy" so I figure that's the next logical step. I personally feel both measures are a bit of a overeaction. Preparing for a endemic seasonal disease like the flu is more sensible to me, with a focus on early detection and treatment.