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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:21PM (#30143312)
I'm a software engineer and I've done similar Operation Warp speeds in the past.

Mandates from executives to ship something now. Disable the test suite because we don't have time to look at the tests. Skip QA, release directly to prod and see what happens.

It always works very well in the IT industry, it's not wonder pharma wants to adopt the same proven approach.

They are not necessarily wrong. (This is an anonymous account so I'll state my qualifications: none regarding medical stuff)

I think coronaviruses we knew before were not immunizing either, which is why people catch the cold over and over (I catch it every year, sometimes twice a year).

What's wrong is pushing simultaneously the view that natural immunity is not very effective against SARS-CoV-2, but that vaccines somehow are, which is indeed a disingenuous proposition on its face.