re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Here’s the good news from Gottlieb: The virus probably can’t escape our vaccines, because the vaccines target the protein that lets the virus attach to the human respiratory tract.

It’s a nasty dilemma for the virus, and a crucial advantage for humans and our vaccine developers.

That was my main concern: that a new strain would develop that was unaffected by our vaccines. Glad to hear that only remotely likely.

Yes, it may be a crucial advantage for now, but Gottlieb represents the hubris of humanity: Thinking that somehow we can escape the genius of evolution. It’s like Aesop’s fable of the tortoise and the hare, where evolution is the tortoise.