Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy Part One
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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Is There Something About the Inability of the West to Really Encompass the World?
China's mortality per unit of population is orders of magnitude lowers. There is no credible estimate of chinese mortality that places it higher than about 50 thousand people in a population of one point four billion. We have the solution within our grasp, which is mass immunisation with effective vaccines, and it is simply not top priority for global governments. The only way any of us can make reliable plans for anything we intend to do next year would be if we actually were confident that the vast majority of the population were vaccinated next year. And anyone who'd recommended that in february, i think, would have been laughed at, but that would have been the appropriate way to react.
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