Why in the name of Heaven are we not either providing free Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to China and Russia or, alternatively, permitting them to manufacture and distribute internally the MRNA vaccines under free temporary patent license agreements?
I would gladly spend a trillion non-inflationary US Dollars on helping our enemies avoid lockdowns (which cause hopelessness, mental health problems, hatred, and rebellion). The MRNA vaccines appear effective enough at reducing coronavirus deaths to make them a powerful peace offering and virtual economic panacea.
Printing an extra $$$ trillion dollars for our foreign enemies’ public health is more likely to procure peace than a trillion dollars for war, weaponry, and explosives to destroy their countries - hastening global warming at the same time.
The present global situation is stupid - and being rendered more stupid by our hoarding miracle cures (or their refusing to accept cures formulated by their enemies).
Humanity is a species of spiritual and moral beings, not mere dumb animals driven by irresistible instincts. We can do better than this.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you… Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you…
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Note,
Who says Pfizer and Moderna have not tried to sell their governments on buying the vaccines like everyone else. It is not like going into the second year of the pandemic Russia and China could not afford to buy the vaccine. Even negotiating the price as most countries are doing was on the table.
There was only the need on China’s part to simply say we need mRNA vaccines.
I have no idea how we became the bad guys in your post.
I do know how Xi and Putin are bad guys. It has nothing to do with us having enemies. If neither of them were bad guys Russia and China would not be our enemies now would they?
alternatively, permitting them to manufacture and distribute internally the MRNA vaccines under free temporary patent license agreements?
Because China would just rip off the tech, and Russia (even before their Ukrainian adventure) probably didn’t have the infrastructure.
Excuse me per the CNN link a Chinese company did license one of the vaccines. The Chinese government never approved it. It is totally on China that it has not gone forward.
There is no reason to constantly assume the US is the bad guy etc…if that is taking sides etc…it is a screwy approach to getting things done.
CNN
Snippet from prior link in this thread.
Hong Kong (CNN)When the highly infectious Delta variant hit China in the summer, some public health experts were hopeful that the country could soon receive an immunity boost from BioNTech's highly effective mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
In July, the shot was reported to have passed an expert review by Chinese regulators and was in the administration review stage, according to Fosun Pharma, the Chinese partner of BioNTech licensed to produce and distribute the vaccine in the Greater China region. Fosun was even planning to start domestic trial production by the end of August.
However, five months later there is still no word from Chinese officials on when -- or whether -- the vaccine will ever be approved, even as the newly emerged Omicron variant is detected in China, posing a fresh challenge to the country's zero-Covid strategy and its less effective domestic vaccines.