Yeah, home-made vaccines are a thing, but they're usually made of inactivated viruses and have some disadvantages if used on a large scale. Still a fair option,

Yeah, home-made vaccines are a thing, but they're usually made of inactivated viruses and have some disadvantages if used on a large scale. Still a fair option, and probably one we could have used early on for populations very much at risk, where the cost-benefit is worth it. Problem is we don't do cost-benefit anymore. With Covid, pretty much any measure they approve becomes very soon mandatory. Vaccines approved for children? Vaccines are now mandatory for children (or strongly encouraged, depending on country). That's... I don't even know how to call it. Bureaucratic thinking? A properly medical approach would be to have a bunch of tools with various degrees of risk and use them as needed. It's ok if individual doctors have to make more complex decisions. It's ok if guidelines are longer than one page. Currently they seem to avoid allowing anything more complex than can be explained on TV.