Thank Socialism for the Vaccine. Blame Capitalism for Its Distribution.

The jaw-dropping speed of COVID-19 vaccine development is a glorious marvel of science, cooperation, and economic planning. But the lifeboat ethics of vaccine rollout is a horrifying display of the cruelty of capitalism.

When nurse May Parsons administered the first injection in the world of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to ninety-year-old British grandmother Margaret Keenan, applauded by dozens of moist-eyed medical staff at University Hospital, Coventry, it was as glorious and moving a moment as any humanity has ever seen. A jaw-dropping marvel of science, economic planning, and […]

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