The U.S. spent a trillion dollars (in today's money) on the Vietnam War. Imagine if we decided now to spend a thousandth part of that to get vaccines to all of Southeast Asia.
https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1398583985840680961
A timely vaccination campaign in Indochina could have a domino effect where one country after the other would achieve broad resistance against the spread of new and old variants of covid. 
Whatever the State Department and CIA propaganda budget is for the next year, it should be diverted 99.9% to vaccine production, and 0.01% to painting big American flags on the crates of vaccine
We can push to vaccinate the world this summer because it's the right thing to do, or because it's the most ridiculously cost-effective way of building American "soft power" we'll likely ever see. Whatever motive works is fine with me.
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