If you don't have the resources to inspect overseas facilities, maybe try trusting the agencies in those countries? And if you're not willing to do that, and yo

If you don't have the resources to inspect overseas facilities, maybe try trusting the agencies in those countries? And if you're not willing to do that, and you're sure you're not going to have the resources to inspect the facility, then don't buy vaccines that you're not going to allow yourself to use. And if you _are_ going to have to send people to inspect an overseas facility, why not do it sooner rather than later? But buying vaccines that are supposed to be used in an _emergency_ (i.e. against bioterror https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-pandemic-trumps-stockpile-chief-put-focus-on-biodefense-an-old-client-benefited/2020/05/04/d3c2b010-84dd-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-pandemi...) and storing them overseas and not allowing them to be used in a crisis because you haven't inspected the facility that produced them seems like the worst of all worlds. This government spent resources on vaccines, pretended this made us safer, and refused to use them. I have a bag of supplies for an inevitable earthquake. Using the logic of our government, instead of storing it in my home, I should keep it in a distant self-storage locker ... and I should refuse to drink my emergency water because the bottle could have BPA. > “We were hit by a wall of FDA arrogance, which it’s famous for: ‘This is how we do things, and this is why we do things, and you all don’t know how it works.’ They told us directly that they simply think that they are the best in the world at this and that the EMA is not quite there yet. And they won’t say why.” I think when you fail hard, you shouldn't get to be smug at the other countries that (a) produced the vaccine and (b) had their inspectors do their jobs in a timely manner.