You make an additional argument, that even if there is widespread global variant evolution, it will be ok for rich ppl because variant targeting boosters. This argument is dependent on a couple of assumptions, none of which we should make.
On HIV history: I do know there were arguments like that by drug companies, and I may well be misremembering public-facing ones as I wasn’t around or here for most of it. But I do know what worked was a mix of activism plus “legacy”—not a rational calculation by selfish masses.
-
-
Two things. There wasn’t a rational self interest argument for HIV tx expansion made, because there was none, unlike for COVID. And, I think we need to be careful saying that it “worked” , considering it took years and millions of unnecessary deaths to get access.
-
Of course on how it “worked”. The whole point is not to repeat that delay, clearly. On the former, again, the discussion is what is the level of evidence that would move this imagined purely selfish person, and what are their selfish options? We may disagree what that looks like.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.