>The next pandemic (or even this one) won't be cut short by science moonshots. It will take a fundamental shift in how the highly-unprofitable activity of devel

>The next pandemic (or even this one) won't be cut short by science moonshots. It will take a fundamental shift in how the highly-unprofitable activity of developing drugs taken for a very short period of time and only once gets funded. Ok, so let's just socialize the pharma industry and treat it as a matter of national defense rather than consumer luxury. With respect to infectious and transmissible disease, the paradigm of treating health as a matter of personal comfort and subjective preference has very plainly failed.