With no signs of stopping, and no reason to doubt that this is a massive undercount [on the right side of this graph, and what’s going is much worse.]
All the negatives in the second part of the sentence take a while to parse.
Certainly our vaccine policy has given little or no thought to getting doses for the third world, despite it protecting us against variants and buying massive goodwill while being super cheap.
‘even though it would protect us’. Past tense suggests an event has taken place. The way to suggest that it would have, had we done it (counterfactual past?): ‘despite that it would have protected....bought massive goodwill...and been super cheap.’
What I found most interesting was also surprising to those who ran the focus group, which is that talk of booster shots pisses off such people:
All the negatives in the second part of the sentence take a while to parse.
‘even though it would protect us’. Past tense suggests an event has taken place. The way to suggest that it would have, had we done it (counterfactual past?): ‘despite that it would have protected....bought massive goodwill...and been super cheap.’
A really strong response to rent seeking?