Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
The economy is being incredibly propped up at the moment. All it will take is a small amount of instability and things will start a downward spiral pretty quick.
I think the markets will hit new highs with another round of stimulus by next summer. But if we see a problem with these vaccines, a problem with supply, a problem with distribution... Things will spiral quickly. Our economy is teetering on the edge and the middle class/small business owners have been decimated. That takes years to come back, if ever.
Supply and distribution will be fine, it's not rocket science. Somehow we do it for the flu every year without getting our panties in a wad.
Where we *might possibly* have problems is if the vaccines themselves have either performance or safety issues over time, just have to wait and see on that. Data so far looks unusually good in both respects. mRNA vaccine technology was being developed because they had hoped all along that it WOULD be better than some of the established tech... this just gave them an opportunity to prove it.
Even vaccine failure risk is mitigated by multiple vaccine technologies in the works... seems like good odds that at least one of those will work.