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One possibility is using sanctions to decide which country can have the vaccine. The assumption is the virus will naturally spread, so controlling which countr
by salimmadjd 7y ago
One possibility is using sanctions to decide which country can have the vaccine.
The assumption is the virus will naturally spread, so controlling which country gets or doesn’t get the vaccine is a form of an indirect biological warfare.
There is already efforts to block European countries from sending medicine to Iran as an example [0].
What we should be thinking about is at what point are we going too far with these strong-arming tactics. Outside of humanitarian arguments, there is the possibility that leaving the virus unchecked, it will ultimately find its way to our shores.
[0] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/05/iran-coronavirus-medicine-sanctions/ https://theintercept.com/2020/03/05/iran-coronavirus-medicin...