The End Is Here. The End Isn't Here. Coronavirus Extremes and really major news

This past week has been really exemplary in providing countervailing opinions and news. 

It started, as already noted, with the massively countervailing opinions on Meet The Press.  As we already noted regarding that show:

In the category of not really good news, Meet The Press had its expert physician, Dr. Michael Osterholm, back on last Sunday who once again declared that it was inevitable that the Coronavirus would infect 70% of the human population, a grim assessment.  He basically holds out no hope for a vaccine being developed in sufficient time to prevent that from occurring.

The other guests, including one working on a vaccine and one working on a medication that has, in part, the effect of a vaccine on a temporary basis where more optimistic.  The latter hoped to have the medication fielded by next Fall. The doctor who was working on a vaccine suggested that next Fall might be possible but reserved declaring that, if all goes well, it would be widely available by that tim

Later this week a government employed scientist appeared in front of Congress with more grim news.

But then, a day later, it was announced that a pharmaceutical company has a vaccine.

Note what this just stated.  Not "developing", they "have".

Now, its not available yet, but its been tested on Rhesus monkeys and it works on them.  If it works on those simians, it will almost certainly work on us.

The challenge here, therefore, is to accelerate the testing and manufacturing process as much as possible.  The normal testing regime is a lengthy one, not without good reason, but the crisis here doesn't allow for a long process.

I've been really skeptical that the "we won't develop anything in time" folks were wrong.  Now they are.  Or will be, if we get our act together.