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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by Exmoor on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:38AM (#25162068)
To continue this analogy, this is more along the lines of a patch to fix a remote code execution bug that is being actively exploited in the wild at an increasing rate. Your alternative is to only connect to the network very infrequently, using a draconian firewall which doesn't completely protect you and hope for the best.

The security patch has been tested on tens of thousands instances for several months, the source code peer reviewed by literally the best experts in the world, and you'll most likely have to wait until its been installed on several million other endpoints before you get a chance at distribution?

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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by faeyanpiraat on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:38PM (#25162781)
The difference is that it is not yet fully understood how humans work.

If you patch a machine and leave it alone, it will stay like that.

Humans age, already have or will get other kinds of diseases, have wildly varied genes, etc..

Drugs could have side effects not manifesting immediately, v2 of the same drug might have less of those side effects.

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