@maz What is your source that vaccines were always the last resort?
You posted a lot of shit. If your intention was to show that you know nothing about epidemiology you succeeded. It is best not to stand behind walls of someone else's text.
I will give you an explanation that even you could understand. (If you wanted to. And you don't.) I will put it into pain English.
The way to stop a pandemic is to stop the spread of the disease. Simple right? Why yes it is. Now. Unless you actually have one already a vaccine does not even figure into the response other than funding and facilitation of the research. That is simply a fact. Once you have a vaccine and you know how well it works (and early on we will not know that very well) then and only then can it be factored into the response.
So that leaves the following tools to fight the pandemic:
You protect people from possible infection. This is done by isolation, quarantine, and education on why and how to do this. Mandatory mask wearing, good hygiene, and physical distancing are the only way to do this. There is simply no other way. Testing is just a way to say, HEY YOU! With a mild disease it is possible that one might choose to do nothing. Sadly this is not a mild disease. It is a killer. (And it is a major source of lifelong disability in some of the survivors but we have not even begun to discuss that yet.)
So I don't know why you are rambling on about a vaccine. At this point when and IF we will get one, and an effective one to boot, is simply irrelevant. It does not matter. It is just a pie in the sky dream. Sure we fund the research and facilitate the trials. Maybe even spin up some factories to make bottles to put it in. And this, to the great surprise of everyone except epidemiologists is a really big deal. There is more. Syringes maybe. Even making supplies of the vaccines under testing on the outside chance that they might work, could be a thing. And this is all up to industry and government.
There is absolutely no public health action to be taken with regards to a vaccine except for some eggheads like myself to begin the discussion about how to use one when and if it becomes available. And even those discussions are vague and general because we do not know how effective or available this vapor ware will be. But then I digress.
The ONLY public health method for fighting a virus like this one....and pay attention now Maz this is a highly sophisticated medical practice....I say again for just to be sure you are paying attention...... the only way to fight this virus, as we speak, is to keep people from getting it on them and then in them.
Meanwhile back at the ranch doctors and pharma are looking for better treatments. Got that. But here is the absolutely only thing you can do to
maybe keep from getting and possibly dying from this disease is the following:
Practice physical distancing.
This includes staying home except when it is absolutely necessary to go out and keeping people who might have become infected from coming into your house.
Wash your hands, face and body frequently and always when you come in from outside, touch anything or body from outside.
Wear a mask every time you leave your house and will be anywhere near other people. Bonus points for wearing a good one.
Absolutely stay away from crowds, even outdoor ones.
Disinfect environmental surfaces frequently and stuff you bring into you home always.
That is it MAZ. You can google some other shit but if you do all of these things you might not get it anytime soon. No guarantee.
The virus does not differentiate between left and right wing politics. It is just looking for a home and some cells to fuck. It does favor one kind of person though. There has been talk about how it likes type A blood. How it thrives in people who are taking ACE inhibitors (on again and off again) and if you are slammin' the proton pump inhibitors, you may as well put out a welcome mat. This may or may not be a thing. But do you know what really is a thing MAZ? The virus, first and foremost, likes stupid people. You do not have to be stupid to get it but you damn sure have to be stupid not to try to keep from getting it.
Ball is in your court.