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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8253205" data-attributes="member: 19675">It may not be possible to meaningfully stockpile any of the C19 vaccines at all, in which case you make sure you at least stockpile the non-perishable components and equipment needed to make it. If the equipment is general/multipurpose and not specialized, you set aside extra parts or even whole units so you don’t need to start from scratch or have to make binary production choices between those other uses and C19 vaccine production if & when.(This is something the Feds are too good at: we’re currently sitting at 30+ years of spare parts on our current main battle tank, for instance...and still making more.  See also strategic reserves of oil, PPE and so forth.)OTOH, if the predictions about C19 becoming endemic and requiring periodic booster shots, the “stockpile” wouldn’t NEED to last all that long or be that big.   Just like hospitals have excess beds beyond their “capacity” as a guard against catas need- thank goodness for THAT- you’d just maintain a rotating stockpile big enough to guard against spikes,</blockquote>