Yes 100%. That's why I never understood the rollout of MRNA vaccines during COVID. It's like pushing a massive code change straight to production during peak traffic and without the normal phased rollout. I totally understand where conspiracy theorists are coming from. That didn't seem right.

It made sense to me- they made a risk vs benefit decision under high uncertainty, factoring in the massive harm that the ongoing pandemic was already causing. There had already been 12 years of human clinical trials for other mRNA vaccines, and they still did extensive clinical trials for the new covid vaccine before rolling it out.

In hindsight they were exactly right- and they saved at least tens of million of lives by acting quickly[1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9537923/

yeah, it's too bad the tech didn't have a better way to gain peoples trust (through some other breakthrough with the normal set of clinical trials). I think the solve was impressive (tell cells to produce a protein that looks exactly the same as the viruses and place it outside the cell to piss off antibodies) but protein-protein interaction data is hard to come by. Maybe these guys can figure it out https://www.aalphabio.com