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It's not over. Developing the vaccine was the easy part--getting it in 6 billion+ arms is the hard part that's just barely starting. That's a Manhattan projec
by qbasic_forever 6y ago
It's not over. Developing the vaccine was the easy part--getting it in 6 billion+ arms is the hard part that's just barely starting. That's a Manhattan project level of work IMHO.
- SilverRed 6y agoYeah, for some reason last year, I was under the impression that once the vaccine had been invented and approved, that would be basically the end of it. But now the prediction is that Australia won't be done until the end of the year and all experts are calling that date optimistic marketing bullshit. Turns out giving billions of people multiple doses is actually a hard problem.
- Spooky23 6y agoIt’s more the convincing them than the giving. Demand is cratering thanks to a year of insanity and propaganda.
- SilverRed 6y agoIn Australia this is not a problem. There is massive demand but there is no supply. All the vaccines are going to the US and EU first.
- kuschku 6y ago*US and UK, because they've got export controls. The very few EU facilities have to supply the entire rest of the world (sans RU, CN). And now the US is talking about doing a third dose per patient before exporting any doses at all.
- caf 6y agoThat's kind of like the Manhattan Project itself, where the scientists at Los Alamos were only the tip of an iceberg, the rest of it being an enormous engineering and logistics exercise to produce the plutonium and enriched uranium needed.