CV and mad panic behaviour

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The government is spending $800M on a new facility that is modern and pandemic ready, was in planning well before Covid hit.

Lots of these things are planned but they struggle to get off the ground or complete due to bureaucracy.

We already know researchers were working of SARS coronavirus vaccines back in 2003 - 2005, but it got dropped due to cuts in funding after the previous SARS outbreak subsided. But people would be shocked to realise Drew Weissman and others had been working on mRNA vaccines including one for corona virus since 1997, and nobody took him seriously until Feb 2020.

Not only that, his group and others have mRNA vaccines set for trial for things like Malaria, Japanese Encephalitis, some cancers, Ebola, AIDS, Dengue, etc., etc. but he couldn't get traction. For a couple of reasons, first what they do with Pfizer and Moderna is different from conventional stuff like AstraZeneca so there was fear of change, the old people protecting there old ways. Secondly because the new methods need investment in new factories there is a reluctance to spend when they already have an investment, the old people protecting their old investment. It's a huge problem that comes primarily out of privatising everything.