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The Vaccine Test (open.substack.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Nyssa to c/solarpunk
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[–] alxd@writing.exchange 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

@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.

[–] poVoq 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nyssa 1 points 4 months ago

Ooooh interesting, good to know! I suppose inoculation is a process that is not particularly complex that a localized society could also achieve.