Vaccinating Properly; Sharing

LAST  AUGUST, when the Russians announced they had a vaccine, nobody took them seriously, certainly nobody in the United States.Some sneaky Russian trick, must be.The vaccine didn't come from an American corporation, couldn't be any good.Then the British did a study, and found that it works over ninety percent of the time, about as good as any American vaccine to date. The Russians proceeded to vaccinate their people with it, which is ongoing, and they started four months ahead of the Americans. The Sputnik Vee vaccine, like like the original Sputnik satellite, flew ahead of the Americans. Wouldn't it have been wonderful if an American vaccine had been available on August tenth, like the Russian one was, instead of four months later? The thought enters the mind that with a little international cooperation to augment good old fashioned American corporate capitalism the whole world could have begun vaccinating the global population before labor Day. All over the world, in many countries, scientists and corporations, with government assistance, have been developing vaccines. What if the first oen to be developed , tested, and proven any where had been licensed to many countries, and mass manufacturing had begun, and then, the same process for the second one developed, and the third, and so forth, with every country manufacturing everyone's version of the vaccine, a massive cooperative effort to get as many dose of as many vaccines to the world's population as quickly as possible? What would have happened is that billions of doses of effective vaccines would have been available for international distribution before the end of twenty twenty, that's what. All over the world, on every continent, even of the continent of Africa, where Donald Trump's "shit hole" countries" await the vaccine, vaccines could have been going into the arms of hundreds of millions of people fare earlier, with simple, basic human cooperation. What we have instead is vaccine nationalism, and vaccine corporate proprietary profit motive, vaccine competition and stinginess. And the place where corporate proprietary capitalism, for profit only, has reared its ugly head the most, as you might have guessed, is in the good old United States of Avarice, the land of the almighty profit motive, where the almighty dollar and the frenetic quest for profit trumps all other considerations. Both the Pfizer and teh Moderna vaccines should have been manufactured by each other, should have been manufactured in mass quantities by many many other companies and facilities, but heaven forbid that we should do any real sharing and cooperation in the land of the almighty dollar.