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For one, vaccine tourism is a thing, so people with the neccesary resources can go and get an alternative. Is there really a popular demand in the USA for the

For one, vaccine tourism is a thing, so people with the neccesary resources can go and get an alternative. Is there really a popular demand in the USA for the Indian vaccines? You are the first person I hear demanding access to an alternative existing vaccine. I am all for that. As long as the effectiveness and duration of the option has been measured, people who desire said option should be allowed access to said option. Measuring is important in order to prevent scams like homeopathy. But if it is good enough for a visa it should be good enough for someone with a really strong preference. No reason to subsidize it though. FDA approval has been a pain point since way before Covid. See the approval of generics, expired patent drugs, Skrelli. That is something the US has to fix regardless of the pandemic.

gadflyinyoureye 5y ago
Here's the trouble with vaccine tourism and policy conversations. Up until a few months ago, the US would not accept Covaxin as a shot for entrance into the US (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/coronavirus-vaccine-college-students.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/coronavirus-vaccine-co...). Since then, the WHO has accepted Covaxin under emergency use. The US might, and I repeat might because I cannot find evidence to support this claim, allow Covaxin to allow students into the US. Again, since I can't find information in the affirmative, I believe that had the mandate gone forth throughout the land, even if I flew to Mexico to get the shots, I still wouldn't qualify on the mandates. No one would. The Covaxin shot is not part of the orthodox tradition now. Even though a cloister of scientists at the NIH, part of the greater church body of the Shot, designed it. Essentially we are told that the Covaxin shot is for the unclean foreigner as a grace dispense from the church of the West. True believers in the West, however, must drink from the approved wine of mRNA. Further, requiring vaccine tourism is a terrible policy. I can work from home. I can afford a red-eye to Mexico (since that is the closest country to the US that dispenses the shot). That is great; I have privilege. What do we do with some 50% of blacks in NYC that lack the ability to do the same?(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-black-young-new-yorkers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-bl...) [Yes, according to the article the number is 28% of blacks have both shots, I'm assuming that number has increased since the writing of the article]. Why should we deny importation of medicine that is effective and was designed by the US? The best I can discern is simply because acceptance of the mRNA tech is now a shibboleth for orthodoxy. It is the homoousion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoousion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoousion) of our day.

gadflyinyoureye 5y ago

Here's the trouble with vaccine tourism and policy conversations. Up until a few months ago, the US would not accept Covaxin as a shot for entrance into the US (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/coronavirus-vaccine-college-students.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/coronavirus-vaccine-co...). Since then, the WHO has accepted Covaxin under emergency use. The US might, and I repeat might because I cannot find evidence to support this claim, allow Covaxin to allow students into the US. Again, since I can't find information in the affirmative, I believe that had the mandate gone forth throughout the land, even if I flew to Mexico to get the shots, I still wouldn't qualify on the mandates. No one would. The Covaxin shot is not part of the orthodox tradition now. Even though a cloister of scientists at the NIH, part of the greater church body of the Shot, designed it. Essentially we are told that the Covaxin shot is for the unclean foreigner as a grace dispense from the church of the West. True believers in the West, however, must drink from the approved wine of mRNA. Further, requiring vaccine tourism is a terrible policy. I can work from home. I can afford a red-eye to Mexico (since that is the closest country to the US that dispenses the shot). That is great; I have privilege. What do we do with some 50% of blacks in NYC that lack the ability to do the same?(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-black-young-new-yorkers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-bl...) [Yes, according to the article the number is 28% of blacks have both shots, I'm assuming that number has increased since the writing of the article]. Why should we deny importation of medicine that is effective and was designed by the US? The best I can discern is simply because acceptance of the mRNA tech is now a shibboleth for orthodoxy. It is the homoousion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoousion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoousion) of our day.