The Vaccine Test
The Vaccine Test
My professional, political, and social circles are defined by folks who are hyper-focused on sustainability. Whether it’s energy, justice, infrastructure, agriculture, transportation, or policy, sustainability and resilience are the core directives of nearly everyone I associate with. I am incredibl...
@Nyssa we even have a @SolarpunkPrompts episode on that!
Take a look at https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-epidemiologists if you want to see a #solarpunk story potential of the daunting task of vaccinating unwilling communities.
I initially thought this was about anti-vaxxers, which is also a kind of test to weed out people prone to group-think and irrational believes.
But yeah, making and distributing vaccines is a reasonably complex tasks that requires some level of global coordination. However, classic vaccines are actually not all that hard to make, a lot of the complexity comes from the regulatory requirements. Early into the Covid-19 pandemic some people actually made their own nasal spray vaccines, that probably were not that much worse than some other early options.
Ooooh interesting, good to know! I suppose inoculation is a process that is not particularly complex that a localized society could also achieve.