TBF most of the red tape around mRNA development is due to people being afraid of immortal cell lines, stem cells, and anything involving human DNA, not because of the actual difficulty of the accomplishment.
But I think that hesitancy was responsible and justified. It’s not like we grappled with our moral quandries, and were able to move forward because we had cleared those intellectual hurdles.
We just decided that those risks, which weren’t worth it a year prior, were now worth it when compared to the risk of extending the pandemic. Everything that gave them pause for twenty years was still in play. It was an informed risk, and it worked out incredibly well.
But it’s not like they were rolling out this season’s update to the flu shot, and we shouldn’t pretend it is.
TBF most of the red tape around mRNA development is due to people being afraid of immortal cell lines, stem cells, and anything involving human DNA, not because of the actual difficulty of the accomplishment.
That’s entirely fair.
But I think that hesitancy was responsible and justified. It’s not like we grappled with our moral quandries, and were able to move forward because we had cleared those intellectual hurdles.
We just decided that those risks, which weren’t worth it a year prior, were now worth it when compared to the risk of extending the pandemic. Everything that gave them pause for twenty years was still in play. It was an informed risk, and it worked out incredibly well.
But it’s not like they were rolling out this season’s update to the flu shot, and we shouldn’t pretend it is.