I vividly remember the days of the space and later the moon race between America and the then Soviet Union on the first country to get to the moon. As it happened it was the US when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first to land on the moon in 1969 although the Soviet Union did launch the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957.
However, there seems to be an
equally competitive spirit as to which country will be the first to deliver a
Covid-19 vaccine that of course is where the competitive spirit should end. We
are now talking about people’s lives not whether an individual will walk on the
moon and no one was hurt in that particular mission whereas we all know the
damage that this disease has already done to countless innocent people
worldwide.
It’s not the case now of who is
the first country to deliver the vaccine but who can safely deliver and we all
should be working together to ensure citizens everywhere from the UK and the US
to Russia, China, Africa and the Middle East etc are all protected and
hopefully this disease like past diseases such as polio are a thing and remain
a thing of the past.
I’m well aware that all
governments are looking to show the world they are the best but there’s a time
for competition and a time to safeguard not only our lives but the lives of
future generations.
So yes, hopefully we will have a
vaccine soon but does it matter who is the first. No as this is not a race.
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