Vaccinating, Rightly

 VACCINATIONS WORK. Polio, small pox and malaria still exist, but only barely, mostly in laboratories for study.To be opposed to vaccines is to live in a fantasy world of denial and false conspiracy, as so many people, unfortunately do these days. To be opposed to vaccines is to be a traitor to yourself and to humanity. Humanity will  defeat Covid 19, as we have defeated the others, but only with the full cooperation of the entire species. The vaccine deniers, the deniers of science, the conspiracy mongers will be the only enemy One question looms; why are the effective vaccines currently being administered not being manufactured much more widely, by many companies, under licensing arrangements, other than the ones which developed them? The answer of course is clear; corporate capitalism rears it ugly head, once again. the profit motive, and the proprietary culture it fosters, does not lend itself to efficient sharing of valuable urgent needed resources, even medicine. Bog pharma companies want all the action for themselves, and for that, shame on them, even as we admire them for helping to make us healthy again. if only corporate culture were as interested in serving humanity as in serving itself, and its billionaire owners. Biden should issue an executive order ordering Pfizer and Moderna and Johnson & Johnson in particular to sell the right to produce their proven effective Covid 19 vaccines to anyone interested, thus stimulating massive production of them, and, as they used to say, may the devil take the hindmost. Let big pharma contest the order in court, and let us all see the base upon which they resist it; greed. Big pharma could either comply, or see laid bare its true concerns and motives. Meanwhile , it is comforting knowing that each day millions of people are getting vaccinated world wide, and that the pace is only going to accelerate. If Trump overturns the election, and becomes president again,w will return to taking bleach and hydroxychloraquine for Covid 19 going without masks to huge MAGA rallies, and diverting valuable resources from fighting Covid to fighting windmill cancer. Fortunately, the odds of that happening would seem to be far less that the odds of pharmaceutical companies suddenly becoming magnanimous.With Biden in control, we have a highly organized, concerted effort from the federal government at long last, with billions of dollars of resources,and the results are already beginning to show, vaccinations accelerating rapidly. Finally we Americans are coming to our senses and tackling Covid seriously. The tragedy is that it took us a year, and half a million needlessly lost lives to do it.