Vaccines, viruses and global politics
US President Joe Biden announced recently that the United States was boosting exports of Covid vaccines. Great news. I guess this is because Joe and his government care deeply about the suffering of people in other countries and want to do their bit to help. Oh, wait, no. He's doing it to "reclaim American leadership" in the pandemic fight. Specifically, he wants to put Russia and China in their places because - as one news report puts it - "Moscow and Beijing have been taking advantage of the worldwide crisis to spread influence through distribution of…