heres how I know; vietnam & australia didn't need the vaccine to do it, so whatever it is that caused the US to not be able to deal with the pandemic without the vaccine is also gonna make the US be unable to deal with the pandemic with the vaccine.
The lack of the vaccine isn't the problem, corruption is. It isn't a tech problem, it's a governance problem. The US is gonna have COVID for ever.
PS, the exact same thing applies for climate change. Ppl be like "oh climate change will be fixed once we invent the right tech". The thing is, we already have the tech to end climate change, we're just ruled by ppl who don't want to. We're fucked, and we're fucked forever, stop waiting for the ghost of albert einstein to solve your problems for you with a glass vial & recognize that anyone who tells you to is the enemy
Im going to take an optimistic route. Governments are willing to spend an absolutely obscene amount of money to make their friends scalping these ps5s rich right now. Because of the immense demand the amount of ps5 production is sure to increase. Clearly there are not enough for Christmas or probably even the winter, but no one is going to stand between between them and they will never admit they backed the wrong horse and should have gone with the COVAX series one.