It seems like the gloves have come off wrt the idea of fair(ish) vaccine access across the board recently. I'm usually not much of an aficionado of free market

It seems like the gloves have come off wrt the idea of fair(ish) vaccine access across the board recently. I'm usually not much of an aficionado of free market radicalism, but I suspect that the vaccine ramp-up would go better, eventually better for everyone, if it had started with a honest commitment to the highest bidder mindset that we can't goodwill out of existence anyways. Only suspect, because who knows what failure modes the other path would hold, but I think that for example early arrangements for mandatory sublicensing (in case of research success) would have been much more likely to have found their way into research subsidy contracts if nation state representatives had been in a gloves-off situation from the beginning.