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This article really did not age well. As misguided as our policies were during the pandemic, It’s sort of ironic reading this article knowing that American com

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• creer 3y ago
  American and european companies yes, public institutions maybe less so - What public institutions did do, for once, is decisively pour money at these private companies and letting them do their thing. And that does count. But it's not exactly the common course of action.
• kragen 3y ago
  lots of countries built covid vaccines; moderna in the usa was probably the first, but weren't allowed to provide the vaccine to people who wanted to vaccinate until november, long after the prc had vaccinated its entire military and political class, as well as any students studying abroad moreover, even inside the usa, moderna's vaccine was only made publicly available months after covid had killed most of the most vulnerable people here in argentina our first vaccinations didn't come until the next year, and they were russian sputnik v, not pfizer or moderna, because the companies in the usa couldn't produce enough to meet demand. the russians struggled with this too, but were still able to deliver earlier of course the following statement is even more true of the chinese and russian covid vaccine efforts > In the 21st century, the main question in American social life is not “how do we make that happen?” but “how do we get management to take our side?” This is a learned response whether it is true in general or not of the chinese or russian economies, i cannot say. the article argues that it is false in china, but virtually everything it says about chinese history is so wrong as to be nearly the opposite of what I understand to be the truth, so I don't trust it the fact that you couldn't get chinese and russian vaccines in the usa (and apparently don't know about them) has nothing to do with who could and couldn't build covid vaccines and everything to do with whose side management took