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Matt Welch's avatar

The pandemic is a global problem. We are all in the same boat. We sink or swim together. The more people that get vaccinated quickly the better off we will all be. All other considerations, like what country gets credit for leading vaccine production and dissemination in the developing world, are beside the point. Saving as many lives as possible is all that matters. All hands on deck. The lens of great power competition will not improve our vision on this issue. It only works to distort. Only a fool sees a clearly non-zero-sum problem as just another zero-sum competition. Scrap antiquated Cold War covid takes. They miss the point.

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C. Scala's avatar

Given the way US conservatives have embraced Putin and Russia's brand in recent years, I move that the Biden administration obtain sufficient doses of Sputnik V to vaccinate vaccine-denying Trump supporters. It's a win-win: they get a vaccine endorsed by their hero's hero, and the rest of us may acquire protection from the covid variants they'll inevitably produce with their antisocial behavior.

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