Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

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Mind you, my personal gut feeling is that we'd likely do a lot better shipping those shots out to poorer countries which haven't been able to get enough shots yet. Failure to do that just risks incubating another escape variant.

On the surface that might seem to make some sense... until you realize that it doesn't.

One of the first nasty mutants arose in the U.K., and most of the spread of Delta globally came through the U.K.

Denying 3rd doses to Americans to give them away to the 3rd world just screams globalism. Those days are over.

I'd be all for declaring costs have been recaptured already though, and both lowering the price closer to real production and packaging costs and ramping up production so there are more doses to go around. There is no reason to punish people in poorer countries, and we've already compensated Big Pharma for development costs. I don't see why we should keep spending tax dollars to reward them just to make it available elsewhere - which is what you have suggested.