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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2020-12-10 12:00 pm

[personal profile] anna_wing 2020-12-11 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Governments, societies and individuals do the maths with lives all the time. Wants are infinite, resources are finite, aespecially in the health-care context. Your health care authorities are making decisions all the time as to how to assign them, ideally for maximum overall social benefit, rather than say, for individual private profit.

One hopes that the WHO will approve a range of vaccines, so you might have a choice of different ones eventually. I believe some of the Chinese ones are made by traditional vaccine technology - denatured or killed vaccines made in eggs, that sort of thing, so there wouldn't be the additional element of novel technology, if that is your principal concern.