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I know this is the party line right now but it’s nothing more then Joe Biden is doing his best to set low expectations and to revamp history. I’m a committed n

I know this is the party line right now but it’s nothing more then Joe Biden is doing his best to set low expectations and to revamp history. I’m a committed never Trumper. But there’s no question that warp speed has been a insane success. Biden set at the bar as low as warp speed was already achieving. There are 1 million valid reasons to hate Trump. This might be the only reason to think his government did a reasonable job at one task.

maxerickson 6y ago
They knew they had clinical vaccine candidates in February! The whole development timeline starts with one of the good vaccines already existing. We honestly don't have the information to evaluate whether they set reasonable targets or not.
- Throwawayaerlei 6y ago
  20/20 hindsight. And Moderna's candidate was designed by January 13th, a weekend after the first sequences from China were uploaded to Western databases, but before we knew we'd even need it. You should learn more about the whole process; did you know everyone has to wait two weeks for sterility testing of finished vaccines? What's entailed in Phase I, II and III trials? That the latter tend to cost a billion dollars plus or minus, and take months? How very long the FDA takes to decide things, three weeks for Pfizer/BioNTech. More money is not the solution to every technical problem!!! I would think those of us who hang out on Hacker News would be intimately aware of this.