I absolutely blame our government for being too risk-averse. We absolutely could have given the mRNA vaccine makers funding to build up production capacity befo

I absolutely blame our government for being too risk-averse. We absolutely could have given the mRNA vaccine makers funding to build up production capacity before the efficacy results are in. There would have been a risk of spending a billion euros on nothing if the vaccines turn out to be ineffective, but that should be a risk worth taking if the success case has you save many times that money (and that's before we talk about the psychological impact of a prolonged crisis).