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Fragile Systems
We are to believe that the legislators and their chosen specialists can understand exactly how to modify complex systems in such a way which leads to a results in which, while suffering no additional complications and yielding no additional potential for catastrophe, we enjoy a net improvement in all our shared set of concerns. We can have faith that it is addressed in the comprehensive and methodological way in which produces the most advantageous outcome.
But, what is the effect being sought? Effectiveness towards what? It would seem that if complex and unprecedented operations are being sought, that one would expect that the complexity is such that predictibility is low and that improvements will be made as we move along, thus it becomes important to ensure taht we have the flexibility to employ our solutions without too much resistance, and that we are able to effectively learn from the effort, caollect insights, and make adaptations on the fly without suddenly prompting distrust and protest from the public.
How can that be achieved? Well, certainly we want as much uniformity of application as possible. We want a bias towards valuing it as the correct strategy and accepting that any error is actually part of the solution, and a belief that, even if there are inaccuracies, it is still far more accurate than what the populace could infer by themselves. We can do no wrong because we are doing our best.
What Is New
If everything new draws upon the old, then how could anything ever be truly new?
Somehow it is addressed that something is old and thoroughly understood because some aspects of its formulation or the understanding of its mechanisms have existed or have been thought about or experimented on for some time, but doesn't say anything at all if such a statement can be said about a first generation product of any kind, particularly if such a product is being used, not only en masse, but to illicit a reaction from a system whose sensitivity and accuracy to react are specifically what we rely on to keep functioning as we get into our old age.
Yes, we have studied genetics for some time. Yes, companies and schools have researched the use of genetic-delivery techniques in order to get the body to produce protein. Yes, we have spent considerable time trying to develop vaccine for RNA viruses - Coronaviruses in particular. It should be noted that our success in influenza has mostly been in our ability to maintain so many recurring product development lifecycles, but that is mostly due to the nature of the target antigen.