every time people say "this new technology is going to make life better with no downside!" I roll my eyes but vaccines are basically an example of that happening, it's incredible.
What’s bizarre about it is that there’s a whole cohort of people who are just looking for one simple trick to win at life, but for some reason vaccines are treated with skepticism.
the first time I managed to have lunch with my great aunt during covid (outdoors! distanced!) she told me stories about the miracle of the polio vaccine, and how as a child she (and others) could only go on their fire escapes during the summer to get fresh air bec they were in perpetual lockdown
One of the antivax talking points that always cracks me up is about not doing enough research on vaccines. They're the most studied and monitored medications on the planet. No other class has anything even remotely close to VARES.
Indoor plumbing. Works so efficiently that it appears invisible and unremarkable on any given day, but the moment you lose it, that lack becomes an immediate problem in a number of ways.
This was frequently the problem when I worked for [large enterprise software company]. You could spend a week doing absolute magic for people, and if you made it seem too easy, they just didn’t understand how amazing it was.
This is one of the hardest challenges of software development, or maybe management of such. If something takes a long time or longer than estimated, was it really hard or did we do a poor job of it? And likewise on the flip side.
The best developers make a lot of hard things look easy.
I was in Moderna's trial and it was run by the FDA via *elite* MD/PhD doctor-academics. One of them told me the Moderna vaccine exceeded their wildest expectations for effectiveness
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The best developers make a lot of hard things look easy.
There should be a statue in every city