Observation: prion-catalysis or not, any vaccine-evasion measures at all seem extraordinarily dangerous. For a highly infectious threat, the fastest response we have right now is mass vaccine manufacture, and that seems just barely fast enough. But our vaccine tech is public knowledge, and an apocalyptic actor can take all the time they want to design a countermeasure.
Once a threat with any sort of countermeasure is released, we first have to go through a vaccine development cycle to find that out in the first place, then a research cycle to figure out how to beat it, then a development/deployment cycle to use those research results and actually beat it. Those latter two phases seem quite slow and notably hard to speed up, since we’d have to find ways to prepare to do fast research, manufacturing, and deployment in a very general sense, to be able to respond to any plausible anti-vaccine measure.
Bro this is really scary. Well done.
Observation: prion-catalysis or not, any vaccine-evasion measures at all seem extraordinarily dangerous. For a highly infectious threat, the fastest response we have right now is mass vaccine manufacture, and that seems just barely fast enough. But our vaccine tech is public knowledge, and an apocalyptic actor can take all the time they want to design a countermeasure.
Once a threat with any sort of countermeasure is released, we first have to go through a vaccine development cycle to find that out in the first place, then a research cycle to figure out how to beat it, then a development/deployment cycle to use those research results and actually beat it. Those latter two phases seem quite slow and notably hard to speed up, since we’d have to find ways to prepare to do fast research, manufacturing, and deployment in a very general sense, to be able to respond to any plausible anti-vaccine measure.