I don't, though? I believe that the US government will act to uphold capitalism, which requires trying to follow expert advice on public health. Do I think developed countries are going to actually do a good job of getting the vaccine to the rest of the world? Of course not. But the vaccine apartheid right now is in large part due to the fact that we haven't achieved herd immunity in developed nations yet. Getting past that hurdle will at least allow developed nations to do some half-assed shitty efforts towards global vaccination, mostly for the PR points they don't want to lose to Cuba, China, and Russia (the former two of which are where I pin my own hopes for eventual global vaccination, by the way). So I'm OK with vaccine passports as a means to get there, for the sake of marginalized people everywhere.
Damn you really trust them like that. Wild
I don't, though? I believe that the US government will act to uphold capitalism, which requires trying to follow expert advice on public health. Do I think developed countries are going to actually do a good job of getting the vaccine to the rest of the world? Of course not. But the vaccine apartheid right now is in large part due to the fact that we haven't achieved herd immunity in developed nations yet. Getting past that hurdle will at least allow developed nations to do some half-assed shitty efforts towards global vaccination, mostly for the PR points they don't want to lose to Cuba, China, and Russia (the former two of which are where I pin my own hopes for eventual global vaccination, by the way). So I'm OK with vaccine passports as a means to get there, for the sake of marginalized people everywhere.