The FDA advisory panel will release their recommendations on Booster shots later today. One thing that I have noted in reading press reports is the absence of discussion of whether vaccines should be sent abroad to places where people aren’t getting vaccinations. American’s are not getting the information that sending vaccines abroad will protect American’s.
I can’t help but think that skewed framing arises from fears of the right-wing in this country. Commentators may be fearing that they will be charged with putting the lives of THOSE PEOPLE ahead of American lives. I worry that the increasingly extreme belligerency of the right is silencing the discussion of the how vaccinating the world is the best protection for all people including Americans.
At least in the US, folks know that for the right wing, our lives matter more than their lives. What would be really crazy making is if the right thinks this is the terms of the discussion. They may completely misunderstand what will keep Americans safe. Who knows! Maybe they do understand and just don’t care. I have to say, I won’t be surprised at anything coming from the US right wing nowadays and for the foreseeable future.
Bottom line, we need to send vaccines abroad and the press has to explain why.
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