Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

Here's what's bugging me. I should have seen a table and a sign, right outside the vaccine center, that said, "C'est formidable d'avoir reçu le vaccin, n'est-ce pas? Une vrai délivrance! N'aimeriez-vous pas partager cette joie?

And someone should have been collecting donations:

https://twitter.com/ClaireBerlinski/status/1370847248922374151

Explaining that for three Euros, I could give a person who wasn't lucky enough to be born where I was a vaccine, too. Maybe show me photos of people who look like they'd *love* to hug their grandkids. "For 30 bucks, you can vaccinate a whole village!"

"Or maybe today you'd like to vaccinate Harare? Or, perhaps, all of Zimbabwe?"

There should be someone standing there with a credit card processor, taking advantage of the stream of people who feel

a) incredible relief;
b) immense good fortune;

c) fantastic gratitude toward everyone who made it possible for them to get that vaccine;
d) a surge of good will toward humankind;
e) the desire to share this good feeling; and
f) a reckless desire to do something you haven't done for a whole year--

even if rationally, you know it takes a couple weeks for the antibodies to kick in. But I can't have been the only one seized with that impulsive, "I'M FREE!" spirit.

I squandered that mood on browsing, recklessly, through a shop selling discount bed linens.

But had someone been standing outside the Salle Olympe de Gouges Centre de Vaccination with a table covered with brochures explaining that for the cost of two pillowcases and a fitted sheet, I could vaccinate an adorable family in Ecuador, I'd have instantly opened my wallet.

(And yes, having realized this, I do plan to return the sheets and give it to GAVI, instead: donatenow.networkforgood.org/gavi/.)

Failing to have a little stand like that, right outside every single place the vaccine is administered, is just leaving money on the table.

I'll bet *everyone* leaves that place feeling so grateful, so awed by these vaccines, and so aware that a very good thing just happened to them, that they want to *do* something to celebrate. And everyone leaves knowing that they were very, very lucky--

--a small minority of humanity is now protected against a disease that's going to just keep on killing everyone else, remorselessly, until everyone is vaccinated. I feel so grateful. But I won't stop until we #vaccinatetheworld.

And someone needs to put up those tables.