Another virus is inevitable - just like death and taxes. Human history has been littered with many examples of pandemics.
We got off lucky this time since the MRNA vaccines had already been in development for decades, plus 1 had been nearly finished for SARS, another coronavirus. Once the COVID19 genome had been sequenced in early 2020, they could get to work on designing a vaccine.
Unfortunately, human stupidity ("the virus is a hoax!") & vanity ("I'm healthy and not going to get it.") is also inevitable and without limit. So count on the next pandemic being just as awful.
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We got off lucky this time since the MRNA vaccines had already been in development for decades, plus 1 had been nearly finished for SARS, another coronavirus. Once the COVID19 genome had been sequenced in early 2020, they could get to work on designing a vaccine.
Unfortunately, human stupidity ("the virus is a hoax!") & vanity ("I'm healthy and not going to get it.") is also inevitable and without limit. So count on the next pandemic being just as awful.
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