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Re:Where has all the productivity gone? by forcry on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:56PM (#28023683)
>We just saw multiple vaccines get developed and deployed in record time

But can you show me the exact breakthrough that came by this pouring of resources into the research, and that enabled such vaccines, by removing blockers that blocked such vaccines for decades?

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Re:Where has all the productivity gone? by hedora on Sunday August 01, 2021 @02:35AM (#28024292)
The main vaccine “innovation” was that the FDA decided to finally approve an mRNA therapy. Moderna’s been trying to get such things approved for about a decade.

So, the “breakthrough” was a brief suspension of questionable bureaucratic barriers. (Temporary suspension of “Dissipation” from the article.)

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Re:Where has all the productivity gone? by forcry on Sunday August 01, 2021 @02:51AM (#28024343)
>So, the “breakthrough” was a brief suspension of questionable bureaucratic barriers. (Temporary suspension of “Dissipation” from the article.)

So as I doubted.

Naturally, the next question would be "What was the questionable bureaucratic barriers" that was temporary suspended. It really blows my mind that the answers to this is not widely known. It is kind of disturbing..

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