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Ummm, not quickly. Vaccine production requires very sterile facilities which take time to build. You do not want to be taking vaccines produced under non-steri

Ummm, not quickly. Vaccine production requires very sterile facilities which take time to build. You do not want to be taking vaccines produced under non-sterile conditions. Also, are you assuming that supply chains are intact? How are you getting the raw and the finished materials to build the factories?

bluGill 7y ago
Raw materials are not my concern - the industries that supply them can get all the people they need from others. You might find yourself demoted from programmer to some third shift factory labor job, but with a few weeks training you can do it (with okay odds that you won't lose life/limb from missing some safety item)
- mellavora 7y ago
  You are conflating raw materials with trained employees. Which brings up another barrier to scaling up production. Raw materials: you need pipettes, chemistry hoods, etc, lots of specialized manufactured items, in order to build the production pipeline. Where do you get these? What if some of these components are manufactured in China, guess what is on hold? Employees. Vaccine production is high-skilled work. It isn't trainable in just a few weeks even if you have reduced workplace safety standards.
  - bluGill 7y ago
    Only 10-20% of the employees are highly trained. HR, finance, and other management functions are universal. There are a lot of highly trained people doing those other rolls, but they can be shifted back into the role they are trained in. By putting 4x as many random people on the problem you can double the amount of work done, but that is about the max you can get. China is well aware of what is needed, I expect they will let the factories making the needed specialized things run while nothing else does. N95 masks can be made avaiable to thsoe who need them which includes not just medical personal but also manufactures of pipettes. If you make something else stay home.

bluGill 7y ago

Raw materials are not my concern - the industries that supply them can get all the people they need from others. You might find yourself demoted from programmer to some third shift factory labor job, but with a few weeks training you can do it (with okay odds that you won't lose life/limb from missing some safety item)

mellavora 7y ago
You are conflating raw materials with trained employees. Which brings up another barrier to scaling up production. Raw materials: you need pipettes, chemistry hoods, etc, lots of specialized manufactured items, in order to build the production pipeline. Where do you get these? What if some of these components are manufactured in China, guess what is on hold? Employees. Vaccine production is high-skilled work. It isn't trainable in just a few weeks even if you have reduced workplace safety standards.
- bluGill 7y ago
  Only 10-20% of the employees are highly trained. HR, finance, and other management functions are universal. There are a lot of highly trained people doing those other rolls, but they can be shifted back into the role they are trained in. By putting 4x as many random people on the problem you can double the amount of work done, but that is about the max you can get. China is well aware of what is needed, I expect they will let the factories making the needed specialized things run while nothing else does. N95 masks can be made avaiable to thsoe who need them which includes not just medical personal but also manufactures of pipettes. If you make something else stay home.