Coronavirus vaccine supply outstrips demand; access inequity remains

Africa is 85 percent unvaccinated and they have far lower reported Covid case rates, hospitalization rates and death rates than highly vaccinated countries.

Citation needed, obviously comparing populations with completely different demographics requires careful epidemiological considerations. Do you also feel strange an unvaccinated school have less complications and deaths than a fully vaccinated elderly care facility?

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"Vaccine inequity is the biggest moral failure of our times and people and countries are paying the price," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said earlier this year.

"Biggest moral failure of our times?"

It seems like our individual and collective moral failings are being pointed out on a fairly regular basis these days.

So what does it really mean?

Distilled to its essence, from philosophy, a moral failure is an action or inaction that damages those around us.

This is the purest definition, before the action/inaction in question is judged by a particular morality of right versus wrong, good versus evil. At which point it becomes a certainty of judgment, that an offender should have known that they should or shouldn't do it; than ipso facto, its failure becomes a moral failure.

And it's a driver of certainty, coming from the morals of those sitting in judgment, of non-compliance against behavioral expectations compared to their values. A chance for redemption and elevation by compliance with their moral code.

So, not giving vaccines to the world, in a quantity sufficient for 70% of the global population to receive it - by this July - is somehow the worse inaction that damages others?

Yikes!

Guess he hasn't been reading up on the latest chapters on blatant and grotesque inhumanity against humanity, going on right now before our very eyes.

"Biggest" of "our times?" Not a chance!

What stands out to me is that the 'generosity' of the Imperium (Or, as it likes to style itself, the civilized world, the liberal democracies, the global community) has been shown to be pretty self serving (we'll give you your our leftovers, but you have to buy expensive things from us to use them) across most of Africa, Latin America, and wide swathes of Asia.

So too has its 'moral outrage', it's 'rule of law' standards, it's 'economic principles' and pretty much everything else that it imagines makes it the ideal to strive for, the yardstick others must be measured against, the 'natural leaders'.

On the other hand, the countries that the Imperium screams must be shunned, are if not evil, are lead by those committed to evil, are the sources of instability etc have quietly been responsible for things that have improved the lives of the ordinary population of those same places.

Want to bet that 100 years from now, there will be historians who will be trying to pin the collapse of the 'Imperial North' on this epidemic, debating against ones who want to pin it on 'social media', 'class struggle', etc

But there seem to be fewer and fewer willing arms to put them in.

Which is the expected result, people vaccinated means less people at risk of death or complications, this means the risk is being lowered continously, at some point the infection will not require further vaccinations. Realistically speaking it is not thought it can be erradicated, but as long as people have enough immunity to be left without appreciable risk then no more vaccines or boosters will be necessary.

Here's a thought.

Reduce the interval between the doses, why not make it monthly.

Because it does not make the cost benefit equation better, do you have any data to suggest it does? or just like to suggest random things without a basis?

Give it to those who want it and don't force it upon people who take care of their health in other ways.

Nobody is forcing it on people as long as they do not increase the risk for others, the people that act responsibly (by isolating themselves instead of vaccinating) do not face any need to vaccinate, they will not be doing any activity where it is required.