What a lot of people don't realise, or can't get their head around is that 95% of the work on these vaccines was done before 99.99999% of people had even heard of Coronavirus, never mind Covid-19, and never mind Jan/ Feb 20, when this first became known to a lot of people.
We've had 100 years of practice at making vaccines and coronavirus' have been around longer than that, then there was SARS and MERS as pretty good "practice runs" so to speak, they knew this was coming. It wasn't a case of if, it was a case of when, it's just a good job it's not as lethal as SARS or MERS, albeit the increased transmissibility is the problem (and why this got rolled out so fast).
As for vaccines, the 100 years of practice, and now having more knowledge and computing power than any year previous, makes it incomparable to durations taken for other vaccines. As years increase, detection speed increases, speed of creation increases, effect increases, problems decrease, safety increases etc. As soon as it's sequenced, they can figure it out rather quickly, and using techniques and methods, already known as safe, due to previous vaccines.
MRNA is fairly new, but it's been known about for a while and should be the safest of all, up to know, and that was known before we even rolled out or tested Pfizer etc.
The problem is virus that are in this orange square below, Covid-19 original strain is somewhere on the bottom line, and over to the far left, but Delta is bottom line, but in the middle. Both about 1% death untreated, and R0 of about 2/3 for original, and maybe R0 of about 8 for delta.The further right, the more likely a pandemic is, and then the higher up, the more of a problem that pandemic is, that's why all of the virus' in this square have been pretty much solved already, or can largely be treated or prevented. They're the biggest problems. Left of the square and it doesn't transmit much, and below it, it doesn't do much (comparatively)
So, now that something new(ish) just appeared in that square, they need to solve it quickly, so hence why the entire world spent a fortune on pushing it through, saving time, it wasn't unsafe to do this (the methods are already known as safe, more than they ever were), it just costs a lot to do this, and requires people to bump it up their "to do list".
A vaccine could be put together in a week now, and be known as safe, where as it could have took 10 years of investigation and testing previous, to get the 10% near the same level of knowledge as today. Would people rather trust a 1920's doctor giving them a jab after looking at something for 10 years, or would they rather trust that medical science and computing power has advanced so much that we can advance on and replicate 1920's in about 10 minutes? They do the latter every single time they visit a pharmacist, doctor, hospital or dentist etc, for anything, but why not vaccines? Weird.
Most of the anti-vaxers I've met seem to have low numerical ability and are generally quite illogical in general. At lot of them mean well, but they just don't understand, as they can't understand. To explain it to them (from their mates) is difficult as they treat all public opinion the same, and are unwilling to go and chat to an expert. If they were all asked to speak to an expert, or could get a tour of a covid ward, when turning down the vaccines, I think more could be swayed.
It's funny mind, as they will take advice (or at least listen to logic) on finance aspects, but not even listen to anything about new vaccines, yet they don't understand the numbers for either of them.
The above lot are different to the conspiracy lot, who just can't be helped.
Then there's some who just do not understand the reciprocal benefit, economical benefit, and cannot see the bigger picture.
Then there are others who just do not understand that something working to reduce transmission even by 30-70% or whatever, can have an absolutely massive effect on R, which is the driving factor behind whether their kids are in school and their shop/ bar/ restaurant is open for them to go to work or get hammered.
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