> Be fair - the vaccine development and distribution program is by far the fastest in history and has wildly exceeded even the most optimistic predictions at th

> Be fair - the vaccine development and distribution program is by far the fastest in history and has wildly exceeded even the most optimistic predictions at the beginning of the pandemic. Maybe so, but what would happen if bad actors had the capability to create viruses easily? My understanding is that the tech for it is already around the corner, if not currently available. Are we just going to trust that bad actors won't have the motivation to use them? Returning to my compsec analogy above, Bob and the rest of the compsec good guys don't care about any possible motivations, just that it is possible. For the record, I'm not 100% for that approach, but it seems to be the way things work. > Now "hardware hardening" - what would that be in your analogy? We have an immune system that--for the most part--works. It does cause terrible diseases in most people[^1] , and there is a bunch of things that it's not very good at, specially for old folk. Maybe it, and the rest of the system, needs some "technical love"? Honestly, we are technologically far from being able to completely fix it, but I would be happy if we had the same heated and open discussions about that backlog --and what can be done with it--the same way we have about practically anything else. [^1]: https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/autoimmune-diseases https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/autoimmune-diseases