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This might be a blindspot among the US citizens. I know the European countries have united to supply vaccines to the developing world with their Covax program.

by ianai 5y ago

This might be a blindspot among the US citizens. I know the European countries have united to supply vaccines to the developing world with their Covax program. But I don't think the US is doing anything similar. I'm not even sure how the US would go about doing that. Would it have to be a Presidentially-ordered/led initiative? As a private citizen, I'd be 100% for the US helping to vaccinate the world. It's an obvious benefit to the US to not have variants arising outside its shores and coming into the country.

sneak 5y ago
> It's an obvious benefit to the US to not have variants arising outside its shores and coming into the country. I hope you meant this as a way to sell it, because this view is a terrible, terrible way to approach the world, as it lives outside of the US are only to be preserved insofar as doing so protects USians. Saving human lives is sufficient reason itself.
- tldrthelaw 5y ago
  >Saving human lives is sufficient reason itself. I think our experience over the last year and a half has proven that, for many, it is not sufficient reason. Self-interest is a far stronger motivator.
- neither_color 5y ago
  If your expectations of people are too high you will always be disappointed. If other people's goals are aligned with yours for the wrong reason, that's better than them not being aligned with your goals at all. See the book "The Wisdom of Psychopaths." Your surgeon might be motivated by profit or might be motivated by altruism, in the end what matters for your survival is that he's the best at his job.
belltaco 5y ago
>It's an obvious benefit to the US to not have variants arising outside its shores and coming into the country. Not just that but it's economically beneficial as well. There are a lot of US jobs that are dependent on exports and tourism from those countries.
- unishark 5y ago
  Also a massive boon to the worldwide conspiracy theory market I'd bet. The US wants to inject all of you with something, please line up.

by ianai 5y ago

sneak 5y ago

> It's an obvious benefit to the US to not have variants arising outside its shores and coming into the country. I hope you meant this as a way to sell it, because this view is a terrible, terrible way to approach the world, as it lives outside of the US are only to be preserved insofar as doing so protects USians. Saving human lives is sufficient reason itself.

tldrthelaw 5y ago
>Saving human lives is sufficient reason itself. I think our experience over the last year and a half has proven that, for many, it is not sufficient reason. Self-interest is a far stronger motivator.
neither_color 5y ago
If your expectations of people are too high you will always be disappointed. If other people's goals are aligned with yours for the wrong reason, that's better than them not being aligned with your goals at all. See the book "The Wisdom of Psychopaths." Your surgeon might be motivated by profit or might be motivated by altruism, in the end what matters for your survival is that he's the best at his job.

belltaco 5y ago

>It's an obvious benefit to the US to not have variants arising outside its shores and coming into the country. Not just that but it's economically beneficial as well. There are a lot of US jobs that are dependent on exports and tourism from those countries.

unishark 5y ago
Also a massive boon to the worldwide conspiracy theory market I'd bet. The US wants to inject all of you with something, please line up.