Vaccine hoarding is a lot like toilet paper hoarding when the pandemic started, it's silliness. There's enough vaccines to go around for the rest of the world to the people that want to get one just like there was enough toilet paper to go around for everybody at the start of the pandemic, then a few people hoarded the supply and tried to sell it for outrageous prices on ebay. The vaccine hoarding is really about power and control, not about protecting a population.
It helps no one to vaccinate everyone in one country while no one from another country has been vaccinated, since all you are really giving people is a placebo and a false sense of hope/morale boost when they get a shot in their arm. The virus is everywhere, not just in the countries that got the most vaccines, so vaccine hoarding won't really do anybody any good. The countries that got excessive amounts of vaccines they don't need might as well get rid of their vaccines if they are not going to give them to countries that could use them.
by Solid Mantis March 9, 2021