If anything, the agreement should be conditional on vaccine being distributed to all funding countries, in order of some index of global health priority.
I'm not loving this, especially since things haven't even gotten as bad as they're likely to get.
On a smaller scale the TP hoarding is of a similar phenomenon. Scarcity, even when it isn't actually there, drives us all and thus we fulfill the scarcity we were afraid of.
But I don't want one solution. I want multiple well funded investigations of different vaccines, all in testing, so when a problem is found with one we still have alternatives.
> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
> Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”
>CureVac issued a statement on Sunday, in which it said: “The company rejects current rumors of an acquisition”.
Finally they give a quote from a US rep:
> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world
According to [Die Welt], Trump was trying to get the Tübingen-based
CureVac company — which also has sites in Frankfurt and Boston — to
move its research wing to the United States and develop the vaccine “for the
U.S. only.” ... On Sunday afternoon, Germany’s Health Ministry told
Reuters that its spokesperson had been quoted correctly in the newspaper
article, confirming that Washington had attempted to take over the
biopharmaceutical company. Government sources indicated that Berlin
was now offering CureVac financial incentives to remain in Germany.That said, Trump has been the most unpopular president in US history, and there is a huge resistance movement. The president has been impeached, and according to Generic Ballot polling, more people are willing to not vote for his party each day.
There is a resistance movement only on the coasts of the US, and in some other Urban, largely democrat area's get out of Urban US and there is no resistance, at most it is slight disagreement, but most people in rural America support Trump completely this includes many in the "Rust Belt" which democrats need to win a national election, support they have completely and utterly lost
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_tru...
I see this polling average for Trump - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_tru... - and it seems to have a couple of extra points more than 538, but I do not see anything comparing Obama's polls to Trump's polls.
I do recall 538 adjusts polls slightly based on bias in the sampled population [0]. Perhaps RCP doesn't take into account bias in polls?
Also, FWIW there is a considerable anti-Trump movement. You may remember he was recently impeached by the House of Representatives.
There are a lot of people, myself included, that don't like Donald Trump, but it is just factually untrue to say that the US is suppressing protests. It's more accurate to say most people are more focused on waking up in the morning, getting to work, and feeding their families than whatever shenanigans are happening around them.
Modern protest movements speak, associate, and organize through social media. Their tweets, blogs, protests, marches, and die-ins are the trumpets by which they call for reform and social justice. Government monitoring of activists’ protests – simply because these activists dissent and without any evidence of wrongdoing – threatens to discourage them from speaking, associating, and expressing as is their right under the First Amendment. Surveillance of #BlackLivesMatter protests also opens the door to racial profiling because the movement is Black-led."
https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/government-watching...
When China arrests doctors for posting on social media about a new disease or when they fire tear gas at people and beat them with clubs while they are protesting peacefully on the streets in Hong Kong, THAT is suppression. It's also a problem that we live in a massive world of surveillance enabled by commercial entities and exploited by governments, but that is not in itself a form of suppression.
If you were to consider this suppression, then technically we are all suppressed in our everyday lives from nearly any activity or statement which dissents from the norm. Meanwhile, over here in reality I'm well known among friends and coworkers as being a cranky guy who dissents about nearly everything for good reasons that most people are too busy with their lives to care about.
Hanlon's Razor feels like it's necessary to be invoked, or at least a corollary here. No shadowy conspiracy makes protest movements in the US ineffective, what makes them ineffective is that the average American is /just, barely/ comfortable enough in their daily life to not consider it worth it to join. Even when people are uncomfortable, they fear losing what little they have on a slim promise of change if they join a protest movement.
My statements are not to laud the state of the US or the actions of our government, just to defend the sanctity of meaning behind our words.
But I'd like for there to be public demonstrations, I was hoping somebody else would organize. I should have done something of course. Now it's too late, at least a little unsafe to assemble in large crowds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: you also broke the guidelines with a personal attack here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341594. If I had seen it at the time, I would have replied. We ban accounts that post comments like these, so please don't.
> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...