> Apparently our ability to create vaccines doesn't hinge on messing around with the viruses before they infect humans. COVID-19 vaccine was created after the f

> Apparently our ability to create vaccines doesn't hinge on messing around with the viruses before they infect humans. COVID-19 vaccine was created after the fact, and it hardly prevented a major global catastrophe. I don't think you can make that conclusion. Sure we didn't make the vaccine before covid existed. But virology research in general certainly builds the body if knowledge required to synthesize vaccines. Did the Wuhan lab research help the covid vaccines? Maybe not, but it's really _really_ hard to know ahead of time which avenues of research will yield breakthroughs.