Between the Virus and Vaccine : Immediate is the Future
Vaccine is back with a vengeance in 2021, this time as a vital critical resource. Admittedly, the normal and familiar ways of the world and human civilisation is not secure anymore. Returning back to old and familiar ways of being, with and after this pandemic now is a promise. This promise fills the immediate future. Vaccine would realise this promise, we are told. Future is reverting back to yesterday to the days before pandemic ran amok. Vaccines were and are part of health programs of poor and developing countries to safeguard safety of children. Epidemics were confined to history, vaccines and research about them was relegated to remote labs, a topic for obscure academic discussions or subject matter for those who would debate anything or confined to those who are opinionated. Vaccine wasn't cutting edge science, or vital or mainstream technology, business or a need across developed and other worlds. Things can and do change drastically and what is a remote concern can tak...