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I'm far more worried about the FDA and logistics than technical limitations. Even if you could make this fix in a day, it'll take months to get FDA approval, a

• dnautics 6y ago
  Indeed. And the likelihood of escape are worse the greater the infected population x time to new vaccine. I'm increasingly worried that covid-19 is the slow loris of viruses. Too slow and mild to warrant panic-mode measures (I don't mean lockdowns), just gonna be an annual millimation of the population.
  • howlgarnish 6y ago
    Aren't we in panic mode measures already? I'm not sure there's much more most countries can realistically implement even if there's a 10x more lethal variant.
    • meddlepal 6y ago
      I think Parents point was that eventually we will have to give up on panic mode and accept deaths from this each year.
    • the8472 6y ago
      During initial containment china welded apartments shut and organized essentials deliveries by dedicated couriers for each city block. And then there's the option of military-enforced cordons. There are multiple levels of panic left untapped.
      • howlgarnish 6y ago
        That's why I said "most countries", because in (say) the US the government couldn't pull that off even if they tried. (For one thing, it's hard to weld shut suburban housing.)
        • nicoburns 6y ago
          Perhaps, but if the virus was as transmissible as sars-cov-2, but had a much higher fatality rate (say 60% like Ebola). Then you would get a lot more support for strict measures amongst the general population.
    • dnautics 6y ago
      I said "not lockdowns". I meant things like "strip down the phase testing" etc. I see no evidence we are doing that.