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Opinion: For just $25 billion, the U.S. could jump-start a project to quickly vaccinate the entire world against COVID
A crash program to increase manufacturing and distribution could save millions of lives and prevent economic disaster.
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On a thought: Europe can do that, too. Hell, 25 billion is about one-eighth of Belgium's yearly amount of tax-avoidance, so there, even my small country can do it. But yeah, I understand the importance of greed, politics and banking, which goes way above decency and common sense in nowadays ideology.
This is not a matter of altruism. The virus mutates when it infects people, the more people, the more mutation. If we let it run rampart in poor countries, it will come back to bite us. We need to do this for our benefit.
@ kxh; This is true. The consistant problems will be the anti vaxxers and those who are just scared to roil up their sleeves due to bs being spread pn fartbook and company.
@ kxh; True, but from that point of view the pharma-lobbies will opt for not doing it, because more variants and prolonging brings in more profit (for their shareholders). And a continuous divided world sells more bombs. So, there: I already know what Biden won't do.