05-09-2021, 01:52 PM
Well... Not to be a pessimist but I agree with the Astronomer on this one.
While we did gain a powerful tool to combat future pandemics, time and effort are still required to produce a specific mRNA instruction to deal with future unknown diseases. It may take long enough to produce a vaccine against a future pandemic for it to cause some damage. Especially if the virus that causes the disease mutates and produces a variant which may successfully resist the effects of the mRNA vaccine.
While we did gain a powerful tool to combat future pandemics, time and effort are still required to produce a specific mRNA instruction to deal with future unknown diseases. It may take long enough to produce a vaccine against a future pandemic for it to cause some damage. Especially if the virus that causes the disease mutates and produces a variant which may successfully resist the effects of the mRNA vaccine.