I remember the army of programmers in corporates, universities, and the Open Source movement, who worked for many years before Y2K to make sure that nothing too exciting happened.

I use R regularly for analysis, and to compile from source a Fortran compiler is *required* for several key libraries
See github.com/cran?q=&type...

I am glad that you are well, but not everyone is so fortunate.
Vaccines reduce the risk of severe illness from Covd19 quite a lot, and reduce the risk infection a bit, and of long COVID.

Vonnegut says something apt in "Mother Night": "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be."

That's why you need single payer systems.