Exactly! I am amazed at how many people have said, "Well we'll have a vaccine in 18 months." This is absolutely irresponsible of the big-pharma industry to push

Exactly! I am amazed at how many people have said, "Well we'll have a vaccine in 18 months." This is absolutely irresponsible of the big-pharma industry to push. Safe vaccines take years or decades to develop, and some of the techniques they're clinically trialing now have never created vaccines that made it through the approval process before. Could one of these magically work? Maybe, but it's still highly unlikely everything in these trials will go perfectly. Places like NZ are looking at total eradication, but the rest of the world will most like just have this spread through our populations before any effective treatment of vaccine is produced. Countries like NZ .. might not ever be able to open their boards again. If the antibodies don't last long, yes we could see reoccurances for the rest of our lives. It's in our environment. It took 20 years of very big vaccination efforts to eradicate smallpox. Sure we have better technology now, but to think we can eliminate this in less than a year is hubris. I wrote this post last week, about how we might just be in denial that our life expectancy might now be lower, and how we might need to just come to terms with that: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-honor/ https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...