05-10-2021, 07:04 AM
Another problem with mRNA vaccines is the rather extreme conditions required for storing them - facilities that most Western health centres don't have except for major hospitals, never mind the developing world.
Going on from that, it's an unfortunate fact (for the rest of the world - it's a disaster for India) that new cases in the numbers currently being suffered by India are likely to produce new strains, any one of which may be even worse than the worst currently in circulation.
Personally, I don't think we will be safe before blue goo. One of the better reasons to become multi-planetary. Elon Musk may yet be hailed in the future as the saviour of humanity.
Going on from that, it's an unfortunate fact (for the rest of the world - it's a disaster for India) that new cases in the numbers currently being suffered by India are likely to produce new strains, any one of which may be even worse than the worst currently in circulation.
Personally, I don't think we will be safe before blue goo. One of the better reasons to become multi-planetary. Elon Musk may yet be hailed in the future as the saviour of humanity.