05-09-2021, 12:04 PM
There's a significant chance that COVID-19 was the very Last Pandemic. Ever.
We got busy during this ordeal and pushed mRNA vaccines forward from "maybe 20 years from now" to "technology we can use today or any time in the future."
mRNA vaccines are extremely quick to develop. We can go from zero to working vaccine in as little as 3 weeks, and that time is likely to get shorter rather than longer. And they appear to be very general - an effective approach to literally any virus.
It'll take us a few years, probably, to work out best practices, appropriate approval and distribution procedures, but from now on, that arrow is in our quiver and any time some kind of threatening virus shows up, we'll be able to start vaccinations within a few weeks instead of taking a whole damn year - which this one did - or going through a 3-4 year process, which was the only option until now.
So, millions are dead and there's no way to make that better. But there is a significant chance that this is the last time it happens. Get out your history books, and write a new page:
The Last Pandemic was discovered in the year 49 AT, killed millions of people in 50 and early 51 AT, and prompted humankind to develop mRNA vaccine technology - preventing subsequent diseases from ever becoming so widespread and threatening as to be 'pandemics' ever again.
The End of the Age Of Plagues - 51 AT.
We got busy during this ordeal and pushed mRNA vaccines forward from "maybe 20 years from now" to "technology we can use today or any time in the future."
mRNA vaccines are extremely quick to develop. We can go from zero to working vaccine in as little as 3 weeks, and that time is likely to get shorter rather than longer. And they appear to be very general - an effective approach to literally any virus.
It'll take us a few years, probably, to work out best practices, appropriate approval and distribution procedures, but from now on, that arrow is in our quiver and any time some kind of threatening virus shows up, we'll be able to start vaccinations within a few weeks instead of taking a whole damn year - which this one did - or going through a 3-4 year process, which was the only option until now.
So, millions are dead and there's no way to make that better. But there is a significant chance that this is the last time it happens. Get out your history books, and write a new page:
The Last Pandemic was discovered in the year 49 AT, killed millions of people in 50 and early 51 AT, and prompted humankind to develop mRNA vaccine technology - preventing subsequent diseases from ever becoming so widespread and threatening as to be 'pandemics' ever again.
The End of the Age Of Plagues - 51 AT.