Good for Russia: taking steps towards allowing free & consenting adults the ability to use an experimental vaccine at their own risk, should they consent to do so, and with the potential to generate massive positive externalities for the rest of the world in the process.
How cringe is it that Russia (of all places) has beat the U.S. in allowing their population the right to access new technology?
Literally hundreds of thousands of people have died during this pandemic, and our regulatory agencies have -- in the name of "protecting us" -- literally blocked off people from being able to experiment (on their own property) with ways to prevent the spread of more mass death. Unbelievable.
Not to mention the tail risk of bottlenecking a life-saving vaccine until a government agency deems it "safe", and then suddenly releasing it all at once to massive portions of the population. If instead you let early risk-takers experiment on their own watch, you get orders of magnitude more data to work with gradually as opposed to suddenly unleashing a single vaccine (deemed "safe" by the FDA) to tends of millions of people at once.
How cringe is it that Russia (of all places) has beat the U.S. in allowing their population the right to access new technology?
Literally hundreds of thousands of people have died during this pandemic, and our regulatory agencies have -- in the name of "protecting us" -- literally blocked off people from being able to experiment (on their own property) with ways to prevent the spread of more mass death. Unbelievable.
Not to mention the tail risk of bottlenecking a life-saving vaccine until a government agency deems it "safe", and then suddenly releasing it all at once to massive portions of the population. If instead you let early risk-takers experiment on their own watch, you get orders of magnitude more data to work with gradually as opposed to suddenly unleashing a single vaccine (deemed "safe" by the FDA) to tends of millions of people at once.