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this article embodies a faith in unfettered technology to save us, above competent management of things we already know how to do. and it's completely a case study in how we're gonna be fucked by climate change. @dwallacewells/1336072472362422272Look on archive.org
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there are countries where there was once widespread community transmission, and now there is not. there are not yet any countries with mass vaccination programmes operational.Permalink Look on archive.org
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to be fair, the article also contains an acknowledgment of this: the kind of hard and boring work it takes to prevent or mitigate the next pandemic (including advance work on a vaccine) is the kind of work it would take to manage the virus using public health tools.Permalink Look on archive.org
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"When he compares the cost of such a project to the Pentagon’s F-35 — you could build vaccines for all [potential pandemics] for roughly the cost of that fighter-jet program as a whole — he isn’t signaling confidence it will happen, but the opposite."Permalink Look on archive.org
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(any excuse to put the boot into the F-35 program, hah)Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, easy to blame American exceptionalism, but British exceptionalism is just as bad. looking forward to the military planes transporting vaccine over the lorry queues in Kent in a month's time!Permalink Look on archive.org
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(that last bit isn't just a figure of speech, btw: theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/05/military-planes-to-fly-vaccines-in-to-britain-to-avoid-ports-hit-by-brexit)Permalink Look on archive.org