The drug companies are really starting to **** off the EU. This distribution was supposed to be equitable, yet places like the Canada and the EU (where the vaccines are actually made) are running behind other countries like the UK and Israel. I’m hoping we don’t suffer from this talk of export controls.
It was kind of inevitable wasn't it? I was hoping there was a secret cabal of intelligent ethical experts somewhere orchestrating vaccine production and delivery in a manner that targeted the global population in the prioritized manner most countries are generally employing. Perhaps there is still one somewhere trying but it's just no match for the pandemic of STUPID20 gripping the planet. COVID19 is like a mild flu compared to that.
Cooperation is the premier thing lacking in our preparedness for COVID bar none. There should have been an international response mounted against this months ago that's on par with the effort to act on climate change.
Oh...right.
I guess this is why I've been convinced for years that we couldn't cooperate our way out of a wet paper bag if our lives depended on it. Imagine if COVID was an asteroid we saw coming a year ago.
We really should rename our planet and call it Babel.