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
My parents' mansion in Servants Entrance, CT, is 10 miles of rough terrain from any train station, how do you propose that I get there? Or to any exurb, for that matter.
Don't say "we're in overshoot; there's no way to provide the energy to move 3 billion people and their individual vehicles along 50 mile round trips every day" because I won't accept it.
We neeeeeeeeeeed a way to provide for our lifestyle