LaffyHurry!
“At least a dozen countries are interested in developing their own #vaccines because they’re losing confidence that the US government will have immunizations ready for the next pandemic…”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/other-nations-want-to-make-their-own-vaccines-as-us-pulls-back
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊
@GottaLaff@mstdn.social
Without being utterly cynical about this, it's absolutely going to take a while to get the rest of the world on a production scale without that massive US funding. I do, however, have one giant piece of hope. An enormous source of the resources used in the world's medical research and industry has been in service to capitalism: with capitalism, the assumption that people shouldn't be well, because sick people are more profitable. If medical research and aims are instead focused on curing disease rather than merely ameliorating symptoms, as responsible governments do like healthy citizens, there may be an upswing in innovation centered on actually trying to fix these twisted, decaying bodies we've all been saddled with.
I don't expect that to come from the UK or Canada, either, but it's a much bigger world than just three countries.
Extra_Special_Carbon@GottaLaff@mstdn.social Will we be allowed to get them, or am I going to need an annual trip to Canada?
Serf de Web@GottaLaff@mstdn.social
I believe Europe has a head start on this, because during the last pandemic, the US wouldn't share its vaccines (or masks).
Carolyn@GottaLaff@mstdn.social The US is going to be left behind. The world is already working around it.
Laffy@CStamp@mastodon.social IS left behind
@GottaLaff@mstdn.social @CStamp@mastodon.social I have a fear that voters will reject Trumpism in 2026/28, and elect a Democrat with the expectation they’ll quickly repair the US’s position in the world, only to be shocked that the rest of the world no longer cares to let the US have that position back, and much of the economic damage from Trump is now just baked in and isn’t quickly repairable, causing the fickle US voters to swing wildly back toward the next authoritarian.
@GottaLaff@mstdn.social @CStamp@mastodon.social I have a fear that voters will reject Trumpism in 2026/28, and elect a Democrat with the expectation they’ll quickly repair the US’s position in the world, only to be shocked that the rest of the world no longer cares to let the US have that position back, and much of the economic damage from Trump is now just baked in and isn’t quickly repairable, causing the fickle US voters to swing wildly back toward the next authoritarian.
Carolyn@mwyman@mastodon.social @GottaLaff@mstdn.social The US has absolutely lost the trust and standing it had. The world IS creating new trade partnerships and a new order.
Voters need to be educated to know that when a new government comes in, how quickly they are able to carry on their agendas will always depend on how much unseen damage they step into, much of which they public will never know. So far, the visible damage suggests it will take many terms to fix the damage done in just this past 6 months.
Carolyn@mwyman@mastodon.social @GottaLaff@mstdn.social The US has absolutely lost the trust and standing it had. The world IS creating new trade partnerships and a new order.
Voters need to be educated to know that when a new government comes in, how quickly they are able to carry on their agendas will always depend on how much unseen damage they step into, much of which they public will never know. So far, the visible damage suggests it will take many terms to fix the damage done in just this past 6 months.
Colin B.🇨🇦
@CStamp@mastodon.social @mwyman@mastodon.social @GottaLaff@mstdn.social
There is no fixing the damage, period.
The rest of the world is being forced out of their comfortable relationships with the US, only to discover that the relationship has been abusive and destructive for ages.
We'll never go back.
Colin B.🇨🇦@CStamp@mastodon.social @mwyman@mastodon.social @GottaLaff@mstdn.social
There is no fixing the damage, period.
The rest of the world is being forced out of their comfortable relationships with the US, only to discover that the relationship has been abusive and destructive for ages.
We'll never go back.