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The good outcomes from Covid. Trying to look positively, the leap forward in vaccines and mRNA really restored my good feeling about some areas of technology.

The good outcomes from Covid. Trying to look positively, the leap forward in vaccines and mRNA really restored my good feeling about some areas of technology. Many great things like HIV vaccines can, and are emerging. It melts by brain that humans are capable of solving extremely challenging scenarios when we work together, but have to wait until things reach a crisis point before doing so. This is countered by the very negative descent into technofascism, but I remain hopeful because medical advances cannot be "undone", whereas technological authoritarianism is at least a treatable and reversible condition.

vanderZwan 4y ago
> medical advances cannot be "undone" While I share your optimism I do not agree with this particular argument for two reasons: the preventable disaster that is US healthcare shows how structural issues can undo whatever benefits expert knowledge might otherwise have given us (look at insulin price hikes, for example), and the fragility of said expert knowledge.
pfortuny 4y ago
Careful with medical advances and the future… See the antibiotics problem.