The only reason we are in this situation is insufficient societal focus on technology. The virus would be a trifle with better diagnostics, vaccines, drugs. Find it, shield against it, kill it. Like every other predator that has ever come after humans, from lions to polio.
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Yes, funding and research is exploding. It's literally the most important thing in the world right now. What we don't know is what that research will find for us. In theory, we could find a working vaccine and treatment. But that's not guaranteed.
Incredibly myopic take. That there isn't a paint-by-numbers strategy to produce these technologies doesn't make it any less absurd to assume it can't be done. I honestly don't know what you're getting out of making comments like this.
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The men who developed penicillin literally had to sneak lab equipment, years after the antimicrobial activity of the penicillium fungi had been demonstrated. The history of science is a story about jigsaw pieces yet to be fit into place. We need less cynicism, more eyes scouting.
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If it makes you feel better to assume we'd be no worse off doing nothing, please consider doing nothing quietly.
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