[xzel]

> I really wish they’d allocate Covid-like money to R&D or prizes for solving various challenges like curing diseases, which would drive universities.

They already do via DARPA, NIH and medical patents. Making a drug and selling it is the prize for solving a challenge like curing diseases.

[epicureanideal]

Let’s add a zero to that (as a string).

And add things like adversarial research to try to disprove findings, etc.

[s1artibartfast]

Start a GoFundMe