“We should try to fix the leak as the first priority.”
As we have been trying, unsuccessfully, for decades, trying to create influenza vaccines. Nobody has simply said “oh that won’t work, let’s not try”. It’s silly to think that.
“He learned of a fix and inoculated his troops.”
Yes, because a fix existed. He didn’t learn that no fix existed and then sit around pretending that one did and blaming other people for failing to do some imaginary thing.
“Even though the Bird Flu is an form of influenza, I am sure scientist will be able to target the nucleic acid chain that does not change—some part of the viral structure that’s shared between all.”
If they could do that for bird flu, they could do that for any flu and we’d already have a flu vaccine that actually works and not have to play a guessing game every year as they try to predict what variant will be prevalent and tailor a vaccine to that. But that’s not the case.
“they could design a single vaccine that would offer protection against every strain that mutates”
And if they ever do, then you might be justified pointing your finger at others and blaming them for not taking it, but we’re not at that point yet, and I’d say it looks like we probably won’t be there any time soon unless we make some new breakthroughs.
You have great insight. I hope our children will have better control and cures for viral and bacterial diseases.