“It is almost unbelievable to me for anyone to look at what has happened over the last two years and think the solution to this is make vaccines faster.”
America, probably more so than other countries, really hews towards technological fixes for social problems. The idea is that we are going to find the new tool, the shiny new object that is going to save us. And in this case, it tends to be vaccines or drugs. And that’s so ingrained that it almost sounds absurd to question it. Like, of course it’s a disease. Of course you’re going to want to treat it with drugs. Of course you’re going to want to vaccinate against it.
I would say it is theoretically the most effective—for an individual, absolutely. If you pick one thing that gives a person the best chance of resisting this new virus, then yeah, get them vaccinated. But two things in that: The delta variant is transmissible enough that you can’t just rely on vaccinations alone to safeguard a society. You need to layer it with other protections. And also, vaccines are fantastic and almost miraculous in how effective they are.
There are a couple of roadblocks I see. One is that so much of our public health infrastructure is shouldered by the states. You look at a state like Florida, where when it comes to testing for COVID, they’ve significantly ramped back their reporting and they’ve kind of made a unilateral decision on that. It doesn’t feel like there’s much that the federal government can do when you’re relying on an individual state like that that’s going to go its own way.
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