You‘re missing one important point. A pandemic is a global problem. Immunising one country will satisfy the population for a few months, but gives the virus a chance to mutate in another part of the world and reinfect your previously immunized nation.
The only efficient strategy is to immunize the globe simultaneously in the span of a few months. In the long term, nationalist leaders do more harm than good to their nation
Small problem: The vax rollout plans where made under Bush and Obama admins, not Trump.
Our first exercises for this sort of event where during the Bush era anthrax scares and while those mostly went poorly the Obama-era (post-Katrina) emergency management reforms brought a lot more detail to the exercises and pre-planning. When COVID hit the plans where dusted off and implemented, if rather ineptly and slowly due to leadership failures at the top. What you are seeing the in the US is not the effect of electing a nationalist government. You are seeing the effects of decades of preparation and planning done by professionals. Israel and the UK have similarly effective systems.
European emergency management is an absolute mess.
> In the game of nations, do you actually want things to be fair, or do you want your vaccine first?
I would argue that's a false dichotomy. Vaccines aren't something that exists in nature, they only exist because people go to a lot of trouble to make them. So it's entirely fair that these people and countries get first dibs.
Who cares? The REAL issue is these 'vaccines' are not really vaccines. They are experimental drugs that have not been tested. More importantly, while the new Covid vaccines will make billions of dollars for the big pharmaceutical companies, but here’s what they won’t do:
The vaccines will not cure Covid
The vaccines will not prevent people from contracting Covid
The vaccines will not prevent Covid-related hospitalizations
The vaccines will not prevent Covid-caused deaths
So.....are you thinking the same thing I am? Why bother subjecting yourself to an experimental drug that has not been tested, does not do what you think it is supposed to do and, of course, the manufacturers have legal immunity from any responsibility.
You‘re missing one important point. A pandemic is a global problem. Immunising one country will satisfy the population for a few months, but gives the virus a chance to mutate in another part of the world and reinfect your previously immunized nation.
The only efficient strategy is to immunize the globe simultaneously in the span of a few months. In the long term, nationalist leaders do more harm than good to their nation
Small problem: The vax rollout plans where made under Bush and Obama admins, not Trump.
Our first exercises for this sort of event where during the Bush era anthrax scares and while those mostly went poorly the Obama-era (post-Katrina) emergency management reforms brought a lot more detail to the exercises and pre-planning. When COVID hit the plans where dusted off and implemented, if rather ineptly and slowly due to leadership failures at the top. What you are seeing the in the US is not the effect of electing a nationalist government. You are seeing the effects of decades of preparation and planning done by professionals. Israel and the UK have similarly effective systems.
European emergency management is an absolute mess.
> In the game of nations, do you actually want things to be fair, or do you want your vaccine first?
I would argue that's a false dichotomy. Vaccines aren't something that exists in nature, they only exist because people go to a lot of trouble to make them. So it's entirely fair that these people and countries get first dibs.
Who cares? The REAL issue is these 'vaccines' are not really vaccines. They are experimental drugs that have not been tested. More importantly, while the new Covid vaccines will make billions of dollars for the big pharmaceutical companies, but here’s what they won’t do:
The vaccines will not cure Covid
The vaccines will not prevent people from contracting Covid
The vaccines will not prevent Covid-related hospitalizations
The vaccines will not prevent Covid-caused deaths
So.....are you thinking the same thing I am? Why bother subjecting yourself to an experimental drug that has not been tested, does not do what you think it is supposed to do and, of course, the manufacturers have legal immunity from any responsibility.