> I think it is worth incidentally considering how incredibly lucky we've collectively been on the vaccine front. Essentially because of how well Moderna and pa

> I think it is worth incidentally considering how incredibly lucky we've collectively been on the vaccine front. Essentially because of how well Moderna and particularly BionTech/Pfizer's vaccines have performed, people now seem to think that we were collectively owed vaccines of this quality and quantity by the universe and that AZ is somehow uniquely incompetent at not delivering something so simple. Yeah, I noticed that too. From the beginning of the pandemic, experts were saying "We shouldn't expect vaccines too soon, Trump is full of shit when he says they're around the corner, 1 year is the minimum delay before they hit the market, several years is possible" and then we got a series of logistical miracles and the first vaccines hit the market before the end of the year. Now people in France are saying "our pharmaceutical companies are worthless, it's been more than a year and there's still no vaccine from them, what the hell are they doing?"