Why are the Russians starting to mass vaccinate the population against Covid-19 in October this year, and we are not?

I. Why do they start?


1. The Russians have many years of experience in virology and vaccine production, as well as the production capacity to produce large quantities of vaccines quickly and cheaply.


2. The Russians understand that the ability to produce a new vaccine quickly is essential to national security.


3. The Russians understand that with people dying en masse every day from Covid-19, delaying the delivery of the vaccine for any purpose (getting a few billion euros for hard work, checking for very rare complications from that vaccine) seems ridiculous and harmful.





4. The Russians know that it is quite easy to test the activity of the vaccine - just give the vaccine to the heroes - medical and retail workers in places where the infection rate is high, and you will see immediately if the efficiency of the vaccine reaches at least 50 percent.
 
5. The Russians still preserved the ancient culture of vaccine and drug makers - that developer tests drugs or vaccines using his own body for the experiment.


II. And why aren't we?


1. We here in the West are a little more individualistic. For us, the body of precious each of us is more important than the many people who die every day without receiving that vaccine.


2. That individualism touches our money as well. Without a few billion dollars, it doesn't pay off for precious each of us personally. How to get those billions? Pretend that we have a lot of hard work. For example, pretend that Covid-19 should not be used without proving an absence of any very rare complications. Who wants complications? Right, nobody. And to do that, we organize clinical trials with many thousands of volunteers. It is a lot of work, most importantly, expensive. It is easy to add billions in profits to these large cost amounts though.