This article and the article to which the author is responding seems to miss the point entirely. There's nothing wrong with "solutionism" if people are making

This article and the article to which the author is responding seems to miss the point entirely. There's nothing wrong with "solutionism" if people are making actual solutions to problems that they understand well. The derogatory term of solutionism was coined because of a trend where people built cool but gimmicky superficial "solutions" for perceived "problems" that in no way addressed the root cause of the problems. They were salves for symptoms by people who drastically underestimated the scope of the problem. They also seemed to have no idea how to engineer lasting solutions (because those are expensive and boring). Vaccines are an actual solution, though. They, in part with huge amounts of boring, un-sexy political action, can end the pandemic. So no, vaccines aren't solutionism, because they actually solve the problem, in a big, expensive and boring way