Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing?

4 points by levleontiev ↗ HN
I have a silly question to discuss: is there any chance that a Coronavirus vaccine can be found by brute force?

The world already has a pretty good infrastructure (Seti@Home) for that, and media all over the world already informed everyone about the threat. Participation in saving the world from the plague could be a very good motivation to join distributed calculations.

Or it makes no sense at all to try the brute force?

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Oh damn, I thought the question was whether the coronavirus could cure crowdsourcing...
Somehow yes, btw. Success will be a great success story of crowdsourcing.
both folding@home and rosetta@home are doing this kind of thing :)