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We’ve never been able to create a vaccine. Nobody has tried very hard because the common cold is unpleasant but bearable. This vaccine is now a global priority
by grey-area 7y ago
We’ve never been able to create a vaccine.
Nobody has tried very hard because the common cold is unpleasant but bearable. This vaccine is now a global priority, there may even be a few variants discovered.
Reinfection is neither common nor proven. Given the number of cases globally and the long incubation period plus unreliable tests such stories are not unexpected.
I agree a recession and layoffs are coming to every sector, but war is a greater fear. This could cause more unrest and wars than 2008 did if it lasts longer than a few months.
- jacobush 7y agoImagine the common cold was also cured by some breakthrough in vaccine development. It (or its 200 variants, rather) may be merely unpleasant, but in aggregate, that's a whole lot of unpleasantness (and lost economic output).
- allannienhuis 7y agoI'm don't ordinarily lean towards conspiracy theories, but its pretty easy to imagine the cold-medicine companies trying to think of ways of hindering any cold-vaccine development, in the same way that they actively seem to encourage people using their cold medicine to get back to work right away to spread that virus around some more. I'd love a world with less cold viruses running rampant. When I started working from home full-time (years and years ago) I immediately noticed that the number of colds per year I had went from something like 10-12 to 1 or less. And the colds I get now are usually correlated with a visit to my grandkids...
- greedo 7y agoNobody has tried very hard? Are you kidding? We've been trying for over 70 years since we first learned about rhinoviruses and their serotypes.
- grey-area 7y agoNot very much money has been spent proportional to other diseases, for obvious reasons.