I go between frustration for all of the obvious ways this rollout could have been much better, particularly in countries I’m socially close to, but do think we should celebrate how much of an accomplishment it represents for humanity.
https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1451095503882506240
The vaccine would be a Wonder of the World in a Civilization game, except we’re making it available to everyone. (On a time scale which is too long, to be true.)
Two days. Moderna had a working, safe, effective vaccine *two days* after we sequenced the genome of the virus.
Two. Days.
Two. Days.
If you wrote that into a movie script most scientifically inclined viewers would say “Pfft Hollywood really doesn’t understand how these things work. Science takes time.”
(And it did take decades. Decades ago. We got to reap the benefits of it in two days.)
(And it did take decades. Decades ago. We got to reap the benefits of it in two days.)
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