Posted on 05/04/2021 10:29:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Rising rates of COVID-19 infections in Brazil and other countries in Latin America are posing a risk to the U.S. in its own battle to overcome the pandemic.
Advocates are pushing for increased efforts to support global vaccinations, especially in poorer countries, while Latin Americans of means travel to the United States to take advantage of a surplus of shots.
The Biden administration has provided an initial down payment of $2 billion to the global COVID-19 vaccine alliance (COVAX); shipped emergency materials to India to help stock up its vaccine development; and “loaned” millions of vaccines to Mexico and Canada.
Democratic lawmakers have called on the administration to prioritize Latin America in receiving any surplus of vaccines, but officials are tight-lipped over making any immediate and pronounced commitments.
In Latin America, attitudes toward vaccination have more or less mirrored those in the United States, with some people eager to receive inoculation and others either distrustful or politically disinclined from taking the vaccines.
But the lack of available vaccinations has added complexity to the process in a continent that hosts some of the world's most dense population centers, as well as some of the most difficult-to-access remote areas.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
That seems kinda pointless since they are all coming up here.
We should set up vaccination clinics at the border tune. Someone tell Sleepy Joe that!
Good grief...
Before you know it, there won’t be enough vaccines to fill the (lack of) demand in the US.
All of this is one big joke on us.
How long before he media calls for admitting ‘vaccine refugees’ ?
“I'm skipping the vaccine so our poor comrades in South America can get it instead.”
They will milk this country dry between covid vaccines and climate change...and conflicts.
US and foreign experts should develop plans to most effectively utilize the exported supplies to control Covid spread, most especially of variants.
Long haul truck drivers and those interacting with them should get a high priority.
Market sellers and those interacting with them not living in the same locality probably should also get a high priority.
India ran a economic surplus against the US of about $28 billion in 2019.
Lots of software is developed in India.
India is the “pharmacy to the world” according to one BBC newsperson because of all the generic drugs India makes.
Roughly 30 trillion in national debt and projected to be 89+ trillion by 2030+/-.....don’t you think this country already been ‘milked dry’ or beyond unsustainable? Wait till Carter era inflation sets in.......
India has something like $584 billion in foreign reserves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-exchange_reserves
Fifth largest in the world.
More than Taiwan.
More than Saudi Arabia.
More than twice Germany’s.
More than four times that of the United States.
Brazil - $347 billion.
India’s household gold holdings exceed $1 trillion.
Yup, more than that of American households!
India has major issues with distribution of anything....they do not have an infastructure nor those capable of sustaining one to fix all the problems their country has. The public itself isn’t of the mindset to correct their habits like trash, and relieving themselves everywhere....
You can send India all sorts of help but it’ll never get where it needs to go.
You can send India all sorts of help but it’ll never get where it needs to go.
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How about we send the Indian H1B work visa and green card scumbags home in exchange for covid-19 help?
Fair trade.
Then bar Indians from the US for at minimum 30 years.
The only “pressure” to send these experimental treatments to Latin America is from the drug companies who can’t force taxpayers to pay for them here in the U.S. since so many are refusing them.
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