Sorry - do you mean why didn't NZ develop vaccine production facilities? I don't know why you'd think it logical for two hundred odd governments to all be doin

Sorry - do you mean why didn't NZ develop vaccine production facilities? I don't know why you'd think it logical for two hundred odd governments to all be doing entirely independent vaccine research to combat the same disease. Funding a diverse set of approaches and salves is certainly worth it - but there's no reason all that work should necessarily be duplicated within national borders. Lastly - I'd be amazed if no New Zealander ended up contributing to vaccine development in some manner. NZ has taken an isolationist approach to the virus that seems, to all accounts, to have worked absolutely wonderfully - it's not an approach available to all nations, but they made it work for them. I live and work in Canada and I didn't leverage any of the factors available to me to jump ahead in the vaccination line - my wife and I have no children and have both been able to work fully remote... so we've similarly isolated ourselves - when my age group came up I registered and was vaccinated but I was happy to see people who have jobs that necessitate in-person interaction prioritized in front of me. It's more efficient for my health for those folks to get the vaccine first - I think NZ found itself in a similar situation, everyone (mostly) wanted to get vaccinated and the voluntary rate so far has been pretty good - it's just that other places need the vaccine more desperately than them. So long as you ignore America, where a large number of doses have expired due to political resistance - those doses of vaccine will end up going to productive ends, and wouldn't it be nice to stop the disease before we have a new wave spread out from Africa?