This thing
Even from a self-interested purely strategic perspective, the opportunity to use U.S. technical excellence to accrue buckets of valuable soft power at minimum cost is incredible.
Only a fool would pass that up.https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1389718770986389508 …
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Other countries have paid much less, which suggests to me that the price is going to come down. J&J is cheaper already, just $10 per person, so that same money would vaccinate 1.2 billion people. With a B.
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Ask yourself - what is going to have more value in the long run? One more carrier - or American vaccines coming in star-spangled boxes to vaccinate almost the entire population of the *continent* of Africa?
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I think there must literally be nothing more important we could be doing to make America safer and more prosperous (because a sick world makes bad customers!) than this.
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Seems like you're using 6 billion for a carrier-- a new Ford class is about $13 billion a pop, and operating costs are 391m a year. Assume three decades of use and that's 1.2 billion doses even at the higher rate.
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(operating cost estimate from https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-20-2.pdf …, acquisition much easier to find)
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