Whether it's governments or corporations, there is constant tension between "move safely" and "move fast and break things." One reason why tech companies manage

Whether it's governments or corporations, there is constant tension between "move safely" and "move fast and break things." One reason why tech companies managed to dominate many fields is that they are less worried about making mistakes than their institutional competitors. Especially in western society where our medical institutions are quite old with many safeguards, the time it takes to roll out a vaccine can seem maddening, especially to readers of HN who work in fields where software bugs don't kill people. For those people, what this author did could seem like an attractive means of cutting through perceived red tape. As has been pointed out before on HN with roll-your-own vaccine stories, it takes a week to make a covid vaccine. It takes much longer to prove it's safe and effective. We rightly live in a free society where someone can do what they like with their own bodies, but - like buying GameStop stock - I hope the naive do not get the wrong idea and do something they'll regret.