For me the weirdest thing about covid has been realizing that the common cold is a ragtag museum of coronavirus pandemics past, all eventually tamed by becoming ubiquitous in early childhood, which we should have paid so much more attention to.
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Replying to @Pinboard
my stepdad said for years that "they can do X or Y (where X or Y is some wild scientific achievement), but they can't cure the common cold" anyway, those mRNA vaccines are pretty neat.
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There was a great thread by someone on cold vaccines here back in 2020. The upshot was that colds are the Whitman's Viral Sampler and there was no way to make it economically tenable to vaccinate.
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