Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
Vaccines take 12-18 months to make IF everything goes perfectly,
That's for normal circumstances.
They already HAVE a vaccine, just started trials.
They can (should IMO) ramp up for mass production NOW, do that in parallel with trials.
Once they have the vax in quantity, they can evaluate how the trails are going and how badly society/economy are doing.
At some point if trails are tracking and the economy is really hurting they (gov) can just order the vax deployed. Basically incurring some risk to avoid greater social calamity. Vaccines are not mandatory, so you could make your own choice anyway.