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I know it's selfish...

Journal by DeathMonkey

But I am perfectly fine with the US hoarding our vaxxes until every American has had the opportunity to get them.

Those companies are free to sell to whomever they want but we got our orders in early and we're currently first in line.

 

Reply to: Since I'm not selfish

    (Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 11 2021, @09:03PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Thursday March 11 2021, @09:03PM (#1122927) Homepage

    I want to mail my vaccine to some needy person in - ohhh, Kenya? Bolivia? Vietnam? I don't care too much where.

    Wouldn't the vax do the most good wherever more people are catching the disease? How about Peru?
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/this-is-the-country-covid-19-has-hit-the-hardest/ar-BB19rP8i [msn.com]

    "Its cumulative death rate of 95 per 100,000 people is the worst of any nation."

    I won't berate you for your selfishness, Monkeyman. But, academically speaking, wouldn't it be best to squash the disease where it is doing the most harm? For all the alarmist fear mongering reporting, the US really isn't all that hard hit. The death rate in 2020 is just about equal to the death rate in - uhhh - 1988 I think.

    https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/death-rate [macrotrends.net]

    Oh yeah - about that death rate. It's going to increase in the coming years, with or without more COVID deaths. All those Boomers, you know. Right now, the last of the boomers are over 60. Soon, they'll be dropping like flies. And, there is nothing that can be done to prevent it.

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