I still really like the use of this to incentivize universal vaccine adoption. Even if it costs say $380B (assuming $500 for minors), it’s definitely worth it for the economy.
My legal concerns were about people who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons, and people with religious objections (like Christian Scientists, who do not take any medicine). I think you can overcome legal objections but I worry it will lead to delays and conflict. (hopefully the q anon anti-vaxxers don’t start a civil war over it)
But I’d point out that the US taking a leadership role helping the whole world have access to and afford vaccines would have an even greater benefit. We should be worried that if Covid runs rampant in other countries for years, it could reinfect America and it gives the virus more chances to mutate. Just imagine spending 390B getting every American vaccinated and then a mutation in Africa renders the past vaccines ineffective.
I hope Joe Biden does a 180 from Trump’s assinine “America First” nationalist, isolationist, narrow-minded approach to a global pandemic. Spending a few billion to help the rest of the world get vaccinated, providing leadership, and collaborating with WHO and Covax would not only be a morally right thing to do, it would also be a great investment in our own safety.
My legal concerns were about people who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons, and people with religious objections (like Christian Scientists, who do not take any medicine). I think you can overcome legal objections but I worry it will lead to delays and conflict. (hopefully the q anon anti-vaxxers don’t start a civil war over it)
But I’d point out that the US taking a leadership role helping the whole world have access to and afford vaccines would have an even greater benefit. We should be worried that if Covid runs rampant in other countries for years, it could reinfect America and it gives the virus more chances to mutate. Just imagine spending 390B getting every American vaccinated and then a mutation in Africa renders the past vaccines ineffective.
I hope Joe Biden does a 180 from Trump’s assinine “America First” nationalist, isolationist, narrow-minded approach to a global pandemic. Spending a few billion to help the rest of the world get vaccinated, providing leadership, and collaborating with WHO and Covax would not only be a morally right thing to do, it would also be a great investment in our own safety.