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
We're never going to have anything remotely sustainable with the number of trucks on the road that we have, and so on. No matyer how you power them, it's woefully inefficient amd a huge waste of energy. Degrowth is the only feasible category at this point, and we should welcome it rather than resisting it.
We can provide for people's needs without jetpacks or 5G.
You can name pretty much anything we produce industrially, and I can make a case that we can get along just fine with 50-90% less of it.