Vaccine

America treats vaccination like a choice of personal hygiene. It's not. It's a war on a contagious pathogen that threatens our way of life. As long as one individual on the face of the earth is infected, the pathogen is one airline flight away from infecting anyone of us. We need to vaccinate everyone on the face of the earth

So, why are are we buying vaccines a person at a time. We should buy a license to vaccinate everyone. Then, the world could crank out vaccines for everyone. Instead of being a cranky landlord, we could be the "triumphant hero".

We could buy the patent of a successful vaccine. The price could be a fair price that accounts for the cost of development of the vaccine times the risk of development plus a healthy profit. That is, let's take into account how many vaccines never make it to market. I'm going to guess at twenty times the development cost.

After that, we could release the details of the vaccine to the world and everyone could get vaccinated. I know that this is not what you would call a sharp business move. We would be turning an export business into an American global public work. But think of the prospects of vaccinating everyone on the face of the earth at once. That would destroy or weaken the disease everywhere at once. That is a good way to way to win